I recently had to have my ACT clutch kit replaced, and the shop told me that they feel that the cause was an inadequate TOB. they told me the TOB that came in that kit was simply not cutting it. Now i definitely installed the kit correctly, but after about 6-8k miles my trany went to **** and needed a rebuild. so bad that there was a 1/2" hole in my tranny case.

So anyway...when they took apart my shrapnel-battered clutch kit, they felt that the cause was an inadequate TOB.

anyone else have issues like this with an ACT kit?

 

no one??

 

My clutch just went out this past weekend. I havent taken it apart yet to find out the issue but my act clutch only had roughly 5k miles on it. I might be able to find this weekend what happened when i get the car back to where i am. Right now its about 75 miles north of me.

 

I installed a 6puc ACT in my evo8..
not even 3 month later my tranny broke..
these clutches are pretty harsh.

 

I got 30,000 mile plus on my kit and still hold strong

 

Installed 30000 miles ago, now starting to slip. Act hdss

 

if you do a search, you will read bad things about act clutch kits. they will give you headaches if you dont get it installed properly.

 

i have about 8k on mine and now my fifth gear is starting to go bad....I really wish I had the money at the time to go cusco twin but since i have to rebuild the tranny anyway ill prob swap it out

 

i second that from experience

 

A lot of people use the OEM TOB also

 

I think that's where I went wrong. I used the TOB that came with the kit.

 

meaning that the OEM TOB one is better than the TOB that ACT send with their kit??

 

I had mine ACT clutch for over 20,000 miles. It's still holding strong. I used everything in the clutch kit.

 

^i had the xtss w/ street disc. Which kit did you have?

its crazy because a good amount of people have had issues with their ACT kits, while others claim to have not. and i dont think its a matter of installed correctly/not installed correctly either.

I think its a matter of good batch/bad batch.

seems that way to me at least.

 

70k on my HDSS. No slipping but cannot shift past 7500 PERIOD

I used everything in their kit as well