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nyk
07-11-2006, 22:50
How difficult is it to replace?

Who's done it?

nyk
07-11-2006, 22:58
or does anyone know a good gearbox place to do it for me? (NW)

BenR
07-11-2006, 23:04
can you live with it?

It doesnt hard anything.

donsrno1
08-11-2006, 01:45
mines has been noisy for the last 10,000 miles and the car still drives fine.

dan 16v
08-11-2006, 09:45
mines noisy as well :(

nyk
08-11-2006, 10:12
I can live with it I suppose.

I wanted to change the stupid paddle clutch my car has courtesy of the previous owner anyways, and was thinking this would be a good excuse to do it.

But my main concern was that it may damage something else, now I know it doesn't I'll do it sometime in the future.

mattyc
08-11-2006, 11:55
What does a noisey thurst bearing sound like?

nyk
08-11-2006, 12:01
a rattle basically coming form the gearbox, that goes away when you put your clutch in.

Can't really tell when driving, due to the noise of engine/exhaust. Can tell best when sat in traffice or ticking over.

It's a bearing on the clutch arm (I think) or its in that geenral vicinity anyways.

summeh
08-11-2006, 20:44
clutch release bearing... it slides on to the end of the fork and does all the pushing against the clutch.

as said above, don't worry about it... you will get a new one with a new clutch kit.

dan 16v
10-11-2006, 14:17
In my case as my clutch as done f all miles, is it worth replaceing? Will this damage any other components?

summeh
11-11-2006, 04:21
No it won't.

Was it replaced when the clutch was replaced?

dan 16v
15-11-2006, 12:32
im still on the original, its only done 30k