Just got back from Le Mans with my S2 - loads of positive stuff (I’m alive, it didn’t break etc etc).
A couple of issues did occur - starter motor solenoid a bit sticky and it really didn’t want to work on the Ferry but went on the 8th attempt and behaved thereafter.
What is puzzling me is the massive judder I get on any downshift into 2nd gear if I don’t blip the throttle to match the revs. Most prevalent at low speed, only ever happens going into 2nd gear - there’s a significant judder throughout the drivetrain from the back of the car if I engine brake at all.
Checked the clutch wear before leaving and there’s 50% life in the clutch. It’s never slipped and bite point is in the middle of the pedal.
The judder is only in 2nd gear And only on downshifts without rev matching.
The car has done 140k miles. It is perhaps sitting a touch low at the rear (suspect tired torsion bar - I replaced all the shocks and new struts built last year), car is on 17” wheels but otherwise standard. It just had a new cat-back exhaust made at Tony Banks but that shouldn’t affect anything.
likely suspects? Clutch? Transaxle mounts?
A couple of issues did occur - starter motor solenoid a bit sticky and it really didn’t want to work on the Ferry but went on the 8th attempt and behaved thereafter.
What is puzzling me is the massive judder I get on any downshift into 2nd gear if I don’t blip the throttle to match the revs. Most prevalent at low speed, only ever happens going into 2nd gear - there’s a significant judder throughout the drivetrain from the back of the car if I engine brake at all.
Checked the clutch wear before leaving and there’s 50% life in the clutch. It’s never slipped and bite point is in the middle of the pedal.
The judder is only in 2nd gear And only on downshifts without rev matching.
The car has done 140k miles. It is perhaps sitting a touch low at the rear (suspect tired torsion bar - I replaced all the shocks and new struts built last year), car is on 17” wheels but otherwise standard. It just had a new cat-back exhaust made at Tony Banks but that shouldn’t affect anything.
likely suspects? Clutch? Transaxle mounts?
