Nope, nope, nope. The throwout bearing spins WITH the clutch when you push your clutch in. The clutch is connected to the flywhel, and spins with the motor. So that your clutch isn't completely shredded as soon as you push you clutch in, it carries a throwout bearing on the clutch fork (the part that actually moves in as you push the clutch in) and THAT'S what makes contact with the fingers on the pressure plate when it goes in. So, the T/O bearing gets pretty beaten as you run the car, and sooner or later, the bearing has had enough, and it begins to make noise. Most times you can have a noisy T/O bearing for quite some time without worrying about it coming apart, but sooner or later, it will bind and start taking fingers out...and that's bad. Yikes! <img src="http://www.zilvia.net/f/iB_html/non-cgi/emoticons/wow.gif" border="0" valign="absmiddle" alt=':0'>
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