Steve Bibayoff wrote:
Hello,
On 2/23/07, Stewart Stremler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Clutches are comparitively cheap.
What is your definition of "comparitively cheap"?
Just curious, from someone who had just spent more on a clutch job
then he paid for the whole car.
Steve
Clutch /discs/ are relatively cheap. Clutches are certainly not. Nor are
either trivial to replace, especially on a FWD car, as the
transmission/transaxle (or in many cases, the whole engine) has to be
removed from the car.
The common way to remove the transaxle on most FWD cars today is to
first remove the entire engine-transaxle assembly from /beneath/ the
car. Transmission shops openly admit they hate working on modern cars.
In the case of PGA's mustang, it has an aftermarket clutch which would
be expensive to frequently replace.
As for how tired his left calf is going to get - a _lot_ more than it
would with the wimpy stock pressure plate. I know, I had a 3700 lb.
pressure plate in my late truck*.
* Strong enough that during the course of an accident, combined engine
torque and rear wheel resistance twisted the drive shaft in two and
snapped the u-joint saddle cleanly off the differential pinion shaft.
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Best Regards,
~DJA.
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