ninobrn99

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after a long hard day and many many cuts, im done installing my RAM clutch and flywheel. Many many thanks to ED for your help and moral support took way longer than it should've!!

First impressions.....this clutch rocks!!! about 15 miles on it and no chatter what so ever! grabs really good and the pedal isnt bad at all! feels better than when i installed my spec 3. as of now i recommend this clutch. Ill post pics tomorrow of what the old setup looked like. the disk was glazed...BAD!!! and the fly has been eaten through a bit. no bueno!

Demon_Speeding

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Sweet! That's the setup I plan on running. Just got to save a little bit more.

I'm starting to see more and more positive comments on the RAM HD.

glennster

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Mine was great for 60 miles,then chattered like hell for 400 miles but broke in and works and holds perfect.

Tranzor

I liked my Powergrip HD when I first put it in... but after a few trips to the track, it was pretty much destroyed. 800 miles and 8 track passes is what it lasted... I hope it works out better for you... here's a few pics of what mine looked like when I pulled it a few weeks ago:







Hopefully mine was a rare case... fwiw, I have since switched to a McLeod Twin and am very happy with it. Went to the track and the damn clutch grabs so hard it broke the spider gears in my 12 bolt's Eaton HD. It's locker time now...

ninobrn99

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my spec3 is worse!! just woke up so i dont feel like messin with the pics yet

Tranzor

Heh... I don't know if you can get much worse than no friction material left on the flywheel side of the disk. I literally couldn't use 5th or 6th gear when it was like that, because giving it any gas at all in those gears would cause it to slip and just rev.

The only thing catching it and stopping the clutch from spinning were the rivets.

ninobrn99

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i was able to drive it, but when i tried to get on it, it wouldnt move..rpms would fly but the car would chug along.....the disk ate at the fly pretty bad and it was glazed!

99ZEOD

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Tranzor, Mine did the exact same thing. I thought I was looking at my old setup when I saw those pics. To make things worse, the VDS that I replaced the HD with did it as well. Only worse. Alot worse. The pressure plate looked like it was cut down on a brake lathe. Funny thing about the VDS damage was the organic side of the disc was perfect as well as the flywheel. This leads me to believe that Ram is having some issues with their metallic setups.

I didn't have any track passes on either one. Both were broken in correctly and had mostly highway miles on them. Neither one had more than 3000 miles. All of this in about 4 months. Talk about a heartbreak.

ninobrn99

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uh oh!!! looks like i better start looking into a differnt disk...maybe the 300/300 disk

glennster

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I have over 4k miles of weekend warrior driving [garage queen] and probably 25-30 hard passes and still going strong.I have to think a large amount of clutch failures are from improper release height.I didn't ad shims or use an adj. master because the release point was and is perfect,thats the key IMHO.

99ZEOD

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Mine was perfect too. Both times.

F-bodyLuv

I installed my HD about a week an a half ago and had some early engagement problems at first. Fixed that with bleeding the MC. I have had it for about 300 miles and it chatters bad. Hopefully it will go away.

Country Boy

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Ive got about 800 miles on my HD and it works like a charm with no chatter.

99ZEOD

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My HD chattered like mad but my VDS didn't. Nevertheless, they both died.

ninobrn99

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ran it today...it grabs really good! still no chatter