so me and my dad put the xtd clutch kit from amazon with flywheeel included and everything went in like it was suppose to. But when we turned on the car it struggled to start but it did, when we tried to put it into gear while the car was on it wouldn’t let me shift into any of the gears. But when the car is completely off it let’s me shift in and out of all the gears
new clutch is smoking and won’t shift into gear
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Welcome to the club.
I can't speak personally for quality on that clutch, and the name makes it sound like an Exedy knock off. Looking into the company, they claim American, but if you google their address it's an Aimco Clutch warehouse, not an assembly plant or office space. It's also on the west coast, which is common for Chinese imported fake parts. Looking at reviews online NOT on their website, they seem to be often defective on install, or fail during break in period. Then they have bad ratings for declining returns.
There shouldn't be any smoke though, and it's not normal to have any on a clutch unless it's partially released. There's no adjustment to be had on release bearing, no adjustment to be done on the clutch pedal/master, alignment can't be an issue as it's on the shaft. The issues you describe sound like you've just got a bad quality wrongly made part to me. Pull it out before damage is caused, take it as a lesson in buying car parts off Amazon (Amazon sometimes sells lower quality versions, even if model numbers match) and be glad it was cheap. I've not known anyone to get their money's worth buying Chinese knockoff clutches. Even if it did work, I bet strongly their stage 3 ceramic disk holds less torque than OEM organic, and wears out literally 10x faster
I can't speak personally for quality on that clutch, and the name makes it sound like an Exedy knock off. Looking into the company, they claim American, but if you google their address it's an Aimco Clutch warehouse, not an assembly plant or office space. It's also on the west coast, which is common for Chinese imported fake parts. Looking at reviews online NOT on their website, they seem to be often defective on install, or fail during break in period. Then they have bad ratings for declining returns.
There shouldn't be any smoke though, and it's not normal to have any on a clutch unless it's partially released. There's no adjustment to be had on release bearing, no adjustment to be done on the clutch pedal/master, alignment can't be an issue as it's on the shaft. The issues you describe sound like you've just got a bad quality wrongly made part to me. Pull it out before damage is caused, take it as a lesson in buying car parts off Amazon (Amazon sometimes sells lower quality versions, even if model numbers match) and be glad it was cheap. I've not known anyone to get their money's worth buying Chinese knockoff clutches. Even if it did work, I bet strongly their stage 3 ceramic disk holds less torque than OEM organic, and wears out literally 10x faster
Is the GS clutch similar to the GT where it can the disc be put in backwards?
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