JHZR2
Staff member
My 1991 BMW seems to leak a little bit of oil though I can't trace it. Perhaps it burns it though there's no real indication in the exhaust and no smoke. It has the original clutch at 150,000 miles. I'm wondering though about what happens when a rear main seal leaks onto the clutch.
The reason I ask is because when I start off in first gear, the clutch starts to grab just fine. At about the last quarter of the clutch pedal motion, instead of fully catching up it almost feels as if there is a slippage and then it locks up hard. Maybe it is a shuddering sensation as a good way to describe it.
So because of this I'm wondering if there could be oil on the flywheel or clutch that causes such a behavior. It is very intermittent and there is no signs of clutch slippage using any of the typical tests. That's why I have to wonder if there is just a slow leak of oil onto the flywheel that maybe just burns off after a shift or two.
Even if this happens generally if I am shifting a lot in and out of different gears and using the clutch, it will not happen again until I sit for a long time, like either at a long stoplight or turned off the car to park for a few minutes.
So what would it feel like if I had oil on the clutch?
The reason I ask is because when I start off in first gear, the clutch starts to grab just fine. At about the last quarter of the clutch pedal motion, instead of fully catching up it almost feels as if there is a slippage and then it locks up hard. Maybe it is a shuddering sensation as a good way to describe it.
So because of this I'm wondering if there could be oil on the flywheel or clutch that causes such a behavior. It is very intermittent and there is no signs of clutch slippage using any of the typical tests. That's why I have to wonder if there is just a slow leak of oil onto the flywheel that maybe just burns off after a shift or two.
Even if this happens generally if I am shifting a lot in and out of different gears and using the clutch, it will not happen again until I sit for a long time, like either at a long stoplight or turned off the car to park for a few minutes.
So what would it feel like if I had oil on the clutch?