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Old 12-06-2004, 08:54 PM
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I pulled my tranny out for a rebuild. I have 120k on it. The clutch was replaced at 77K. The pressure plate and flywheel have no wear at all(nothing I can feel). The clutch looks good but I cannot tell how much it has worn.

Does anyone have a spec for the thickness the factory clutch should be when new?

I am happy to put in a clutch if needed. There is well over an 1/8" to the rivits and less than 1/16" to the grooves in the clutch.

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I got my ram clutch sitting here. The organic face is 1/8" thick and the metallic side is 1/16". Don't know about the stock clutch though.
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Thanks for the input P mack

The total thickness of mine is 3/8" It sure looks good. There are 40,000 miles on it. Seems strange that it has not worn more??

How many miles do you get out of a stock clutch?

This one was replaced at 77k

Anyone else??
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My original clutch is about to bite the dust at 75k. It's fine around town, but it's really loose feeling and will slip a little taking off fast. I doubt it'd survive but a few passes. I don't think it helped though with me learning how to drive a manual on this car when I bought it late this summer at 67k when the clutch was already pretty loose. Even still, I had more of a tendency to let the clutch out too fast and not gas the car enough instead of letting the clutch out too slow when learning.

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