I currently have a 2.5L YJ 5-speed. My question is about the gap between the bell housing and the motor. It's about a centimeter wide gap in between there (just behind the oil pan). Is that a ventilation or is it supposed to be plugged? I ask this because I went off roading over the summer and took a mudhole that I got stuck in. I noticed that I had no clutch after sitting in the muck for about ten minutes. I had her towed home and replaced the clutch and components in my garage. The old clutch had mud on it I think. Is that where the mud got in? I ask this because I have a friend with the same specs on his YJ and he takes it through deeper stuff than that all the time and his clutch is just fine. I have avoided all mud since then and would love to get over my fear and offroad more but I don't want to have to fork out the $120 everytime I hit a muddy spot. Any help on this? Thanks, Drew
I beleive that is there for ventillation, when a clutch gets too hot it fades just like brakes do, and that is bad. The key in deep mud and water crossings is 1 HUGE key thing alot of people forget... DO NOT SHIFT GEARS WHEN THAT DEEP. Hehe. When in DEEP water or deep mud do not shift unless is it ABSOLUTELY neccessary, shifting seperates the pressure plate\flywheel\clutch plate and water get in there, as does muck, and dirt, and all that nastyness and it scratches your pressure plate, greases the clutch so it burns the whole thing off, and all sorts of other things. Yes sometime you have to shift, best bet when entering mud is to start off with the rpms HIGH and keep it that way, unless you REALLY don't know what in there and wanna play it safe, just try not to stall. Some may disagree with me on this but I've lived by it and my jeep is still low enough to get FULL of all that crap and I am still running on the same clutch. G'luck.
Thanks man, that was probably what I did wrong. I knocked it out of gear and put it in revese when my buddy started to pull me out of the mudhole. Granted I will probably not ever go into a mud hole that deep anymore. I was just very stupid and did not check the depth of the hole before I dove in. Thanks, it makes so much sense and I never thought of that as the problem.
Hehe don't stress it, we've all done it once or twice, its all part of jeepin'.
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