EtidW

I have a 2006 6 speed and I head out the the movies last night and when I get back in the car and start for home I hear a metal on metal noise when I engage and disengage my clutch. I'm like what the @#$% is that. I continue home and in the morning I call the dealer to get an appointment but no joy until Monday next week. So I go out and get the light to take a look myself. Finally I find that the clutch spring is broken. I think great. I take it out. By the way my Vette is my only car. I come back in and get on this forum and search for clutch spring and after reading a few posts I find that several people have had the same problem and some have gone without the clutch spring without problems or damage. What a relief. I ordered a new spring and will likely install it when it arrives. To have access to all the knowledge that is out there to help is the greatest thing about owning a Vette. So I just wanted to thank all those who helped in my decision to drive the car without a clutch spring. Thank you all.

noz34me

They are a helpful and knowledgeable bunch. I hope someday I'll be able to contribute as well as just receive.

N2TU

You will...give it some time...sometimes even minor items you may think are not worth mentioning are important to one of us...

This forum's collective thoughts is fabulous...

R&L's C6

Here's a picture I saved in case I ever needed to replace mine.

Attachment 47732210

1BADLS3

Where is that at? ^^^

R&L's C6

Under the dash on top of the clutch pedal.

1BADLS3

Thanks, that's what I figured.

C6ROLLER

I get answers on this forum quicker than I can find them in the owners manual!!!! Just throw up a thread and you get an answer in 5 mins or less

Hameister

Excellent photo Randy, I lifted it for my reference archive, thanks!

R&L's C6

Thanks, but it wasn't mine. I lifted it from another thread too...

peter pan

Cool

Hameister

Ha, well, I'll tell ya.....so far I am very pleased with my '13 GS. No issues, no problems, no noises, no need to return to the dealer for anything. Everything in my car has worked perfectly from day one.

I read about dash creaks, and squeaks, targa top issues, electrical problems, battery failures, etc. Guess I've just been lucky so far, or maybe it's the Florida humidity that keeps everything moist, and lubricated.

R&L's C6

Well, other than throwing a fit on the Corvette forum for six months, miraculously getting a hold of a BG quality control manager and Tadge Juechter, driving to Kentucky to get all my painted panels replace at the bash last year, mines been perfect too....

VET4LES

Some forum member leave the spring out. I'm one of a few members that think the spring was put in for a good reason and should be replaced.

Hameister

Which painted panels, and why did they need to be replaced?

I agree....seems to me that no manufacturer, of any product, includes parts, that cost money, for no reason. The clutch mechanism was engineered that way for a reason.

R&L's C6

Every thing that was Crystal Red. Fenders, hood, top, doors, door jambs, hatch, front, back.....

Paint problems from the factory.

If your bored here's how it went down.

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...t-do-i-do.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...ing-worse.html
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...most-here.html

Hameister

I didn't read every post, but bounced around the threads enough to get the gist....what a royal pain, but it all worked out in the end, and it looks as though you were well satisfied.

R&L's C6

It was one of those lemons into lemonade stories. If not for that crazy mess, I never would have made it to Bowling Green to meet Tom Hill, Tadge Juechter, a bunch of forum members, visit the NCM and tour the factory.

My story is a tribute to the power of this Forum....

This Forum Rocks....

1BADLS3

Holy crap, I thought you were joking.

raspyc6

I had my friend and fellow Corvette Forum member JUIC3D remove the clutch spring and it is just better now. It was his idea and for the purpose of "a more linear feel" with respect to clutch actuation. There is more effort involved to depress said clutch but in my mind there was not enough effort with the spring in situ looking back.