Stock flywheel or Ram flywheel with Powergrip HD?
03-18-2008, 11:41 AM
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Stock flywheel or Ram flywheel with Powergrip HD? I have a relatively low mile (~30k miles) stock flywheel from my LS6 clutch that I was looking to use with my Ram Powergrip HD when I get it. Would it be a better idea to go with the Ram flywheel instead?
03-19-2008, 11:49 PM
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With the HD you have to use the Ram flywheel. If not your clutch will burn up within a few thousand miles if even that trashing the flywheel also. Happened to a friend of mine on his T/A then Ram explained to us that is says you must use their flywheel due to differences in flywheel and disc materials and friction properties in the HD owners manual and their web site. I am running a HD with the Ram steel flywheel and works amazing.
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03-27-2008, 11:36 PM
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Dude they're just saying you need to use there's. What is it, a special metal alloy or something? NOPE. Seriously, just use yours. As for the fellas who said their Ram went bad because they didn't use the Ram flywheel....thats just crazy. No offense or anything guys. I'm just bias because I bought a Ram and thier flywheel. Putting down 400 at the wheels and ran like 4 passes and the thing just blew up with like 9k and months. Springs on the clutch disk just blew right out. I wasn't the only one either. Maybe they fixed that problem, dunno.
03-28-2008, 03:16 AM
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If you're going to do a new clutch there is no reason not to resurface it if everything is apart. Pulling these tranny's once is a pain, pulling them twice in a row is a bitch without Midol
03-28-2008, 10:40 AM
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Dont do it. Spend the money on their flywheel. I had a ram hd in my car with a brand new stock flywheel and it last about 6 months. No track passes just daily driving. Same thing happend to a friends car. Before mine went out I installed one in another friends car and put the ram flywheel and its been working fine since.
03-29-2008, 04:58 PM
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Use only with RAM billet steel or factory nodular iron (explosion resistant) flywheels.
thats directly from ram's website on the powergrip hd clutch set, i bought one also and i had the factory flywheel re-surfaced. so ram said you can use factory flywheels as you can see
thats directly from ram's website on the powergrip hd clutch set, i bought one also and i had the factory flywheel re-surfaced. so ram said you can use factory flywheels as you can see
03-30-2008, 06:17 PM
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I'd like to hear the reason why its a must to use their flywheel. If they're saying you can use the stock one, I'm sure after market ones are just as good and majority better.
03-30-2008, 09:41 PM
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With the HD you have to use the Ram flywheel. If not your clutch will burn up within a few thousand miles if even that trashing the flywheel also. Happened to a friend of mine on his T/A then Ram explained to us that is says you must use their flywheel due to differences in flywheel and disc materials and friction properties in the HD owners manual and their web site. I am running a HD with the Ram steel flywheel and works amazing.
03-31-2008, 06:52 PM
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