How many miles on your clutch ? (986)

[Ghostrider 310]

trygve, what about that rivet at the Nine o'clock position? Just my two cents but pushing the clutch too far on these units only increases the replacement cost substantially if the flywheel is compromised, that's a hellofa price for gear change bragging rights. Of course this is only an issue for me in a car I can't drive anymore, the Fiat, which has the OEM unit at 52K.

[j.fro]

Second gear syncro went before the clutch did...I rebuilt my trans at 142,000 miles. Clutch was still good, but I swapped it out for a SPEC stage 3+ and LWFW.

[trygve]

Originally Posted by Ghostrider 310

trygve, what about that rivet at the Nine o'clock position? Just my two cents but pushing the clutch too far on these units only increases the replacement cost substantially if the flywheel is compromised, that's a hellofa price for gear change bragging rights. Of course this is only an issue for me in a car I can't drive anymore, the Fiat, which has the OEM unit at 52K.

I'd have to take a look but I think all the rivets still have about 1/16" of margin below the surface, which given my apparent rate of wear is good for quite a few miles more. Since I'm not super familiar with the mechanical details, do you mean that once those rivets are exposed they will touch and damage the flywheel? Hopefully something would feel wrong at that point. In my case it was a no brainer to replace it when the engine was out. I'm not sure what would be a reasonable trigger to replace it if it is working perfectly OK.

On the other hand, I imagine its also possible to get so used to the clutch behavior changing over time, that if someone else had hopped in my car they'd have said "OMG your clutch is an on/off switch, it's about to blow!" And in fact, I recall that the new one felt different for a couple of starts and now it's all second nature.