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Originally Posted by Rawknees'Turbo
The pilot bearing is the small one mounted in/on the flywheel and simply stabilizes the tip (just the!  ) of the gearbox input shaft (not much force there, ever); H&T probably meant the clutch release bearing which does carry quite a bit of force whenever the clutch pedal is depressed/held down. |
But it's designed to take that force in normal circumstances
Anybody who is smooth with the clutch will be just fine
people who think dumping the clutch will make them faster at red light , and test their metal a lot, won't be fine..
But that's because they are not driving it like a normal person, and think every green light is time to launch like a bell end.
I drive my cars hard, but that 0-10 accel at the lights in 1st gear, is really not an area where i ever stress my car. It's not worth it, there are no prizes to be won
And in 25 or so years, i've never burned, worn, or broken a clutch, or anything else on my transmissions of any of my cars.
Being fast is being smooth. And if you are smooth you don't break yer transmission.
Now if you are Max Verstappen, with a team behind you to rebuild your transmission and you have a lot at stake, well, then it doesn't matter if you launch at the green light.. And then it won't matter if that bearing is sensitive, because they'll just replace it often enough. But with robotic gearboxes, they took out the bell-end's clutch finesse, and replaced it with perfect robotic timing so it's both fast and still mechanically smooth