When I first start up the car in the morning ONLY, when I first start to pull away from my parking pace (1st gear), the clutch is very *touchy* and I almost stall it! This only last for maybe the first 30 sec of driving it out of the garage very slowly. Once I hit the street it's fine. On daytime restarts, car is fine. Anyone know what's up?

 

Perhaps the brakes are dragging slightly? Some folks have had issues with e-brake adjustment and/or pads rusting a little in damp weather.

 

No this is definitely the clutch engagement...starts to *act up* as soon as I let it up. This only last for a very brief period as I'm pulling away to the exit of the garage when car is COLD in the morning.

 

Wait until the vacuum increases to 18-20" upon startup at idle, it's in cat warmup mode and sucks *****. The timing is grossly retarded, fuel enriched and the cam overlap changed to dump lots of raw fuel into th ecat to heat it up. After a 1 min idle and the vac comes up see if is still an issue.

The clutch shouldn't be any different but the engine has zero torque in the cat warmup mode, could be your issue if you are not used to it yet.

 

This started happening to me, about 2 months later my slave cylinder took a total ****. Turns out it had been leaking and eventually just completely stopped working. I don't know why it only did it on start up for me......but it did. Yours sounds real similar, hopefully you don't have the same issue.

 

Ok..much thanks. This only does this STONE COLD, perhaps you hit it on the head.

 

Been driving it daily for 41k miles now, I knows it a bit.

 

Let it warm up this morning to 140 (about 2 min). Smooth as silk.
Thanks

 

You're welcome, these LNF's are all balky cold. Terminator2 found a way to quiet down the cat warmup mode a bit with the cam settings, but it didn't help the lack of bawls at all. Catless and with the SRI it sounds like a Helldiver when it's in cat heating mode. I let mine warm up until I see 18" vac at idle and no issues. If you have the RPD I guess it doesn't show vac from what I'm told.

 

I've always thought it was the clutch being cold and perhaps a little surface rust on the components due to ambient humidity.

My LT, SS/2.4 and SS/TC all do it after sitting overnight. I wouldn't worry about it.

 

I don't know how much the clutch can *warm up* idling in neutral?
I can see if you went through some shifting..engaging..disengaging..that would heat up the disc/flywheel surface. But I didn't touch the clutch at all...just let it sit and idle. When I then took off, it acted normally..no shutter or trying to stall on me.