Cause of crankwalk.......

Okay, so I was talking to my uncle(car guy) today and of course I brought up my dsm. He told me that his neighbor has a dsm and it crankwalked. He said that he heard it was because of the oil squirters(I heard that too) but, he talked to a mechanic and the guy told him that the cause is a performance clutch. The guy said that a performance clutch puts too much pressure on the thrust bearing. Does that make any sense or this this "mechanic" talking out of his... well you know.

that is true it has beens stated on here before that if u have a 7 bolt engine its not wise to get a very high preassure clutch.

No one knows 100% what causes it, but all the extra load of a hi perf pressure plate will definitely finish it off.

If he said that is the ONLY reason why, then kick him in the nuts, it's a combination of things.

I heard something about, if u disconnect the clutch starter cable, it will reduce change of having cw ( How do you do that, I will do that the first day I have my turbo ).

All this shit has been discussed thousands of times already. Killer7 do a search using 95 GSXracer (Kevin) and you will come up with something. Here is one linky linky (http://www.automotiveforums.com/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=266565&highlight=disable+clutch+switch)

I've heard (and tend to believe) that is insufficient oil to the thrust bearing. I've also heard that the oil squirters get stuck open and theres not enough oil for the thrust bearing.

Would replacing the crankshaft with a high performance one or forged one prevent it from crankwalking. I was looking at a tutbo engine and the guy said that the crank was replaced by the dealer and he had all the paperwork. But I am curious if it will really prevent crankwalking if you change the crankshaft.

HAHA gone for like 6+ months and we still got the CRANKWALK QUESTION :lol:

Killer7 there is a plug near the back of the clutch pedal...just unclip it and you wont have to engage the clutch to start the car...did it to my car a year ago.

The only known "For Sure" cure for crank walk is a 6bolt block and crank. A new crank won't prevent it, people have tried all kinds of tricks and nothing is definitive because if it doesn't happen thats not a sure sign it worked cause it doesn't happen on all cars.

HAHA gone for like 6+ months and we still got the CRANKWALK QUESTION :lol:

Killer7 there is a plug near the back of the clutch pedal...just unclip it and you wont have to engage the clutch to start the car...did it to my car a year ago.

hey welcome back, I remember you !!

I personally believe it was a bad mold at the dsm factory. I've read all the threads on this, and that's what I'm going with.

7 Bolts... Blah....

I personally believe it was a bad mold at the dsm factory. I've read all the threads on this, and that's what I'm going with.

What do you mean? :bananasmi

Clutch start switch disconnect vid - http://www.clipsekid99.com/other/clutch.wmv

I vote to put a link to that in the FAQ

Why did this get moved to performance?

Crap, I had a nasty writeup at RKO linked to in the FAQ that no longer works... I wonder if I have that saved somewhere. I think I lost all my saved writeups when my HD shit the bed last year, and I don't think it's on the website. I'll have to spend some time searching RKO's new site and see if the old stuff got transfered over.