I suppose it could be the pilot bearing, but on my 2.6L the pilot bearing was shot (as in broken, all the ball bearings at the bottom of the bellhousing) and it did not do this. What would do this is a bad throwout bearing. Either way, you are probably looking at yanking the trans and replacing the clutch disk, cover, pilot and throwout bearing. There's rarely any way around that.

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