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jeepmor · 12-11-2022, 06:41 PM

Mine is the same for those pockets, just couldn't figure out why. Probably just how it clips into the TOB.

Thinking of mine in regards to tolerances and my clutch never fully disengaging.

1. My Southbend 2, an Exedy product tip to tail, may have it's clutch fingers out further than EOM.

2. I don't think they changed the clutch pivot on first clutch change, but one would figure this wear as an engagement issue of being too loose, not too tight. It was replaced when I had it gone back into recently.

3. Brand new OEM flywheel, leads me back to clutch pack thickness being too thin, not thick, moving the fingers out. Replacement flywheel had wear, I don't recall in any hatching/machine marks left.

4. Clutch thickness. This puck style clutch is new to me, but it seemed thinner than OEM to me at the time, which would put the fingers out more respective of TOB position all things being equal.

5. I still don't fully understand why this happened, I just know going back to OEM addressed the issues I was encountering.

6. All said, per my Verus fork and my condition. It seems it would need a pocket deeper, not shallower.

7. I'd like a more adjustable clutch system. If I just had some mounting adjustment in and out of clutch slave cylinder, this would have been a simple fix. Adjustable rod length or bolting position of clutch slave cylinder is all it would take as long as nominal throw spec remains. This is fixed via the slave cylinder and linkages currently. It would only take a minute to adjust like my jeep example of the adjustable rod length on it's clutch fork. Same conditions though, no adjustment of throw, just fork hold off TOB.

Sometimes tolerances stack and fail. I studied the bejesus out of this in engineering roles in solar. Being my condition was too tight keeping clutch never fully disengaged, this part was too tight. Which means that's still too much material in the way and technically, I could have just dremel balled the slave cylinder pocket out and made it work, or slot the slave cylinder mounting to back it off.

12-11-2022, 06:41 PM	#51
jeepmor Senior Member Join Date: Apr 2014 Drives: 84 CJ7, 08 Duramax, 2014 FRS Location: Oregon Posts: 486 Thanks: 347 Thanked 131 Times in 105 Posts Mentioned: 13 Post(s) Tagged: 0 Thread(s)	Mine is the same for those pockets, just couldn't figure out why. Probably just how it clips into the TOB. Thinking of mine in regards to tolerances and my clutch never fully disengaging. 1. My Southbend 2, an Exedy product tip to tail, may have it's clutch fingers out further than EOM. 2. I don't think they changed the clutch pivot on first clutch change, but one would figure this wear as an engagement issue of being too loose, not too tight. It was replaced when I had it gone back into recently. 3. Brand new OEM flywheel, leads me back to clutch pack thickness being too thin, not thick, moving the fingers out. Replacement flywheel had wear, I don't recall in any hatching/machine marks left. 4. Clutch thickness. This puck style clutch is new to me, but it seemed thinner than OEM to me at the time, which would put the fingers out more respective of TOB position all things being equal. 5. I still don't fully understand why this happened, I just know going back to OEM addressed the issues I was encountering. 6. All said, per my Verus fork and my condition. It seems it would need a pocket deeper, not shallower. 7. I'd like a more adjustable clutch system. If I just had some mounting adjustment in and out of clutch slave cylinder, this would have been a simple fix. Adjustable rod length or bolting position of clutch slave cylinder is all it would take as long as nominal throw spec remains. This is fixed via the slave cylinder and linkages currently. It would only take a minute to adjust like my jeep example of the adjustable rod length on it's clutch fork. Same conditions though, no adjustment of throw, just fork hold off TOB. Sometimes tolerances stack and fail. I studied the bejesus out of this in engineering roles in solar. Being my condition was too tight keeping clutch never fully disengaged, this part was too tight. Which means that's still too much material in the way and technically, I could have just dremel balled the slave cylinder pocket out and made it work, or slot the slave cylinder mounting to back it off. Last edited by jeepmor; 12-11-2022 at 07:19 PM.