I'm in the process of doing a new flywheel and clutch in my 2002 BS.
The flywheel was not a "planned" item, as upon inspection I discovered that the DMF had little or no rebound back to it's starting point, and had way too much travel.
At any rate, I know know EXACTLY why my clutch was so crappy. It was not slipping, it was just noisy and the pedal felt kinda rough and hard to depress.
In this first photo, you can see where PART of the clutch release was being handled by the clutch fork. The other part was being done by basically half of the throw-out bearing. Notice the arrow, a clutch fork is not a bearing.
Aside from a bit of a rub, the fork is fine!
In this second image, we see that the throw-out bearing has been custom-profiled by small demons inside the bell housing, or lack of lubricity on the guide tube, take your pick. One side of the bearing has literally been ground-down almost a quarter of an inch, leaving the fork edge to pick up the slack. This could have been a lot worse.
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