Rolling hard up a hill, traction control light blinking happily , heard a pop, lost power....

Popped the hood at home, thankfully I was less than a mile from home. Piece of the clutch spring went right through the thermostat housing!

This was a brand new clutch assembly back in November of 2010, installed and shimmed properly. This failure has to be a manufacturer defect to break like that? Belt is fine. All pulley are good to go.

Zero chirping perfect engagement prior to this carnage. thankfully that's all it took out.

 

oem pulley? :o

 

EvoSport pulley

 

Looks like it. This is the sc pulley we are talking about right?

 

its not the clutch, its the pulley spring that gone by the looks of it.

 

that is a oem mb pulley. I have seen springs break on them.

 

Yes, it is stock. I thought you were asking about the main pulley.

Something was bound to break sooner or later.

 

Where are you located? I may be swapping my newish 3k mi OEM one for the smaller SC pulley and could sell the OEM one to you.