Thread: a clucth a year! help!

fyi i'm talking mileage wise.. I read of people getting around 10k miles on it but anyone who can input on the mileage they get out of theirs would be great.. I'm thinking of going with a spec stage 3 rather than the fx500... I found the fx500 for 280~ online though so cheap if you are getting it

Found it
http://www.lmperformance.com/569236?gclid=CPzUp-jJ5r8CFctzMgodozYAPw

just ordered! thanks for the find

flywheel has 3 dowel pins. just looked at the block, it has none

are they in the trans? is there a spacer plate at all? them things are hard to make stay in place while doing a clutch/trans job lol so if no dowel i bet theres no plate..

anyway ya that'll kill clutches bro ask me how i know lol

I was missing 1 or 2 and destroyed my clutch... springs popped out 300 miles away and I had to drive 350 miles home with no clutch haha (50 miles to where I was going then 350 back)

how many dowel pins are there suppose to be on the block? wasn't that bad putting in the the tranny and spacer in with help of a modded jack. lol




fuhhh!



i dropped springs in 2 clutches, both in a DET. Didn't notice if that DET had dowel pins. but in this DE i never ran a sprung clutch, but i did strip the splines in 2 clutches.

that's amazing

Missing block-to-bellhousing dowel pins was my first guess.


Top dowel pin can be seen in this picture at the top holding the spacer plate on. It is above and to the left of the starter access hole.
The left dowel pin can also be seen in the picture immediately to the right of the "front" engine mount bracket.

thanks. so 2 dowel pins it is.

I blew 2 springed' clutch discs as well in a full bolt on VE - don't know how some of these guys with 400+whp run them. They suck pretty much. So far the CMFx500 is good