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Originally Posted by svandamme

Me thinks yer calf muscle will wear out from that heavy Porsche clutch, looooooooooooooooooooooooooong before your Porsches pilot bearing will.


Has anybody ever seen a gearbox fail with a worn pilot bearing?

Cause I haven't, we have (had untill recently) mostly manuals in Europe
Nobody here on forums discusses how to shift, never mind how to "protect" their pilot bearing by going neutral at stop lights.. I bet most don't know what a pilot bearing is, it's a non issue in the continent where manuals are the default... So that it keeps coming up on American car forums.. I thinks says more bout Americans and manuals then about manuals and pilot bearings

I think it was Wayne that posted about the thrust bearing years ago on the technical board. This was the first that I heard about a pilot bearing.

The theory, as I understand it, about the thrust bearing is that the pressure from the back end keeps the crank from moving forward/backward like it would/could with the clutch pressed.

I thought that to pass a driving test over there, you had to put the car in neutral with the parking brake on at stops. Maybe that's just an England thing, or maybe I'm completely off-base.