Really strange, I just read through the other post on this and all the things you have addressed. Triple check all the involved mounting bolts. Master to firewall, slave to bellhousing, etc. Make sure nothing there is loose allowing something to shift under the pressure of operating the pedal. Also, follow the line from master to slave and make sure that it isn't flexing when operating the pedal and contacting something, a long shot but you never know. Did you lube the slave pushrod to pivot arm contact point? I doubt that is it but possible that it is shifting around and making the sound.
Dustin, thank you for the feedback. I'm not doing the work myself. Would seem like a really long shot that the tech who is wrenching on it is leaving the same bolt loose each of the four times the transmission has come out. I do know they did lube the contact point. Admittedly, we should have changed the pivot arm again. Collectively, we missed that one.
I'm disappointed no one mentioned his knee.
My knee? As a source of a clicking sound? LOL.. not so far fetched. I have a knee that doesn't knee so well anymore.. but it's the other leg.
Why 2 clutches in that short time frame? Did you do something wrong driving, or were they installed wrong? Did you pay someone or a shop to do the work? If you paid someone, I'd be making this their problem until proven otherwise.
I didn't do anything wrong when driving and they didn't do anything wrong with the install. On the second removal they discovered
one of the dampening springs was loose in its mount. Given how slight that sound was, and it being buried between the pressure plate and fly wheel deep in the bell housing, I was pretty confident that wasn't the issue. None the less, the clutch kit was warrantied and replaced.
I don't have the time, equipment, knowledge or inclination to do the work myself. In a vacuum, I get your comment about the shop being responsible. However, I know them for decades. They maintain all of my vehicles and are 100% there when I need them. They were fantastic during the initial transmission swap and charged me zero labor for all of the subsequent remove/installs. Most of the parts we changed, with the exception of the new Mopar bits, were warrantied. They are good guys. They aren't trying to ditch the issue and are as stumped as everyone else is.
Was thinking on this again yesterday, It sounds crazy, Could be the shop has somehow installed the throw-out bearing fork spring incorrectly and that is causing the sound. When I listen to the video, aside from something possible wrong with the pedal box, it seems likely that could be the issue due to you saying you can feel it in the bell housing.
This, I do not know. However, what's the likelihood that they made that same mistake multiple times. Possible. Not too likely.
Based on the parts changed so far with zero change in the click and when it happens, the probability of leaving the bolts loose the same amount through a couple of trans swaps is extremely low. Same with all other bolts. The heat is the clue. Something is changing when it warms up. Given the changing out of all other related parts in that area, that only leaves the snout the throw-out bearing sits on. Not sure what or how, but that is about the only thing that hasn't been swapped out.
100% in agreement with the heat being the major, if only contributing factor here. I alerted them of your suggestion. I thank you.
...normal or at least acceptable.
It didn't do it before or after the transmission swap. It started somewhere after one of the MC/Slaves went. Can't lie.. the timeline is becoming a blur. I'd have to go back to my log. I DD the Jeep and my confidence level has taken a huge hit. I am at that the point that it will either be relegated to Driveway Queen or sold. Already started shopping for a replacement.
The update is.. no update. I left the Jeep at a transmission specialty shop Monday. I've used them before and they were in communication with the shop that did the work. They didn't touch the Jeep for days. I brought it home last evening exactly how I left it there on Monday.
I have no plan other than to drive it until the clicking either goes away, the things blows up, I park it or sell it or I stumble across someone who can shed some light on it.
