Clutch Pedal SNAP OFF 8 Year Warranty-Recall ~~~
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Couple of days back my clutch started squeaking. It broke yesterday while I was waiting in the traffic light! I have around 72K in my car. Anyone knows if I can claim this under powertrain warranty?
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Don can you post some pics of your welded assembly in this thread here: https://www.rx8club.com/race-roots-134/clutch-pedal-bracket-solutions-explanations-now-recall-194975/
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I have no idea either, I cannot keep track of all 2,000 customers..but then again I could be getting old in my age I was mixing up 2tone and bumblebeerx8 the other day as well...lol
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Even freaken worst, called the tow truck today, through mazda 24hour roadside assistance. freaken ******* was on the effin phone the whole ******* time. i followed him to the dealership. when he was getting my car off the flat bed. Dumbass forgot to take off the e-brake and put my car in neuatral, ******* left it in first gear. i had to yell at him to stop the ******* truck. i heard some cracking noises in my transmission. i called mazda and told them the problem, they told me any damages they find when they open my transmission he's gonna be liable for it.
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Adding the side reinforcements for lateral movement as per your advice is an added bonus as well.
I'm all in for welding instead of bracketing where it's possible but the shop must know what to do. If I didn't know my mechanic that well i would have bought a bracket instead.
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Okay I don't want to pick on anyone's welding technique, but those welds would never pass muster on an airplane inspection. (Sorry I haven't figured out how to get a pic into the 'text' and not display just as an 'attached thumbnail'). The green arrow in the pic shows closest to what a good weld should look like - the rod adds relatively little material and the two pieces flow into each other. The left red arrow shows an area that airplane builders at least would call "stuck on", and in this case it's hardly even that. See the gap? See how the welded part flowed "onto" the base and not "into" the base? That area has little if any added strength and it's caused by the baseplate not being heated properly, which is hard to do with an electric stick welder. When I was doing welding to aircraft standards, I'd gas weld and heat both of the parts to a cherry red before bringing in the rod which eliminates cold welds like this one. MIG or TIG welding also can solve the problem if set up right, but are expensive. The right-side red arrow shows an area that would probably not be allowed for aircraft either and would be called a stress-riser. Two welds drawn together that closely may cause a high level of built-in stress resulting in reduced fatigue resistance and eventual cracking under vibration.
I only bring this up to say that electric welding thin sheet is tricky and results will vary widely depending on who is doing the work. That's one reason why for the 'average joe', I think the bracket solution is the better one.
I only bring this up to say that electric welding thin sheet is tricky and results will vary widely depending on who is doing the work. That's one reason why for the 'average joe', I think the bracket solution is the better one.
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While I agree that I probably won't let Brett build my SR-71, we are talking about a component that sees very little real stress.
The main thing is to establish a "box", which is something that the OE assembly does not in its native form.
There are plenty of spots on that pedal that needed to have proper penetration and sections that needed to be welded that are not welded at all. But upholding it to aerospace standards are ridiculous in this application.
The main thing is to establish a "box", which is something that the OE assembly does not in its native form.
There are plenty of spots on that pedal that needed to have proper penetration and sections that needed to be welded that are not welded at all. But upholding it to aerospace standards are ridiculous in this application.
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While I agree that I probably won't let Brett build my SR-71, we are talking about a component that sees very little real stress.
The main thing is to establish a "box", which is something that the OE assembly does not in its native form.
There are plenty of spots on that pedal that needed to have proper penetration and sections that needed to be welded that are not welded at all. But upholding it to aerospace standards are ridiculous in this application.
The main thing is to establish a "box", which is something that the OE assembly does not in its native form.
There are plenty of spots on that pedal that needed to have proper penetration and sections that needed to be welded that are not welded at all. But upholding it to aerospace standards are ridiculous in this application.
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62,000 miles or so. Manual transmission. See pictures. Is this what's happened to everyone else? I don't know what it's supposed to look like, but I somehow doubt that piece of accordian'd metal is supposed to look like that, lol.
I can't wait to do a search and see what this will cost me...