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13th August 2020, 19:26 | #11 |
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Can't agree with the EXCESSIVE bit in the post above.
Worn away rivets are excessive.--- However-------those splines. Lube, Lube, lube. PS. Sticky sort of lube too.-- |
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Have a look at the "shadow" marks on the fixings between the splined part and the friction plates. It looks like there may be movement there. Are the clutch fingers (where the thrust bearing touches) even in height from the splined centre? If there are springs on the other side, are they loose?
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Jon, if you compare the friction material at "7 O'clock" to the rest of the disc, it is visibly more worn which would suggest an uneven clamping load. This would explain why Simon was experiencing clutch judder, this is the first time I've seen a friction plate without torsion springs though...........the wonders of modern flywheel technology I suppose |
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I've seen quite a few centre plates without springs when a DMF is fitted
The wear/friction marks are quite normal too. |
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I would tend to think the material variations in strength of the plate could give that effect simply by one having a slightly higher wear rate than the other over time.-- Last edited by COLVERT; 14th August 2020 at 12:48.. |
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Thanks for all the replies chaps.
Re rust on the splines - that might be because the car hasn't been used for so long. It's been nowhere at all for well over a year (and some) but the judder was there for years before that. Re the plate - the above pics aren't very clear because direct flash has bounced straight back at the camera, hence its difficult to tell what's wear and what isn't. I'll take some properly lit pics of the old plate alongside the brand new one and post them here. More later (probably tomorrow). |
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The LH plate is a Borg & Beck, no idea who made the RH one but it's the factory original. 1. Gearbox side 2. Flywheel side Blowups of centre section. 1a. Gearbox side 2a. Flywheel side There's a ring of scoring on the used plate just inside the rivets - it's on both sides of the plate. It's also on the pressure plate surface, but not on the flywheel. |
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Finally, here's the pressure plate.
There's plenty of scoring to match that belt of marks we saw on the driven plate, but this is most of the way across the contact surface on the pressure plate. There's also the dark colouration which looks like it been cooked on by the two discs spinning against each other. This a section of the same shot blown up. And this is a section of the pressure plate lit with a multi-point LED lamp to highlight the scoring marks and the dark coloration a bit more clearly. This is not a happy bunny IMO. NB. Any rust you can see is where I washed it with large amounts of water and washing up liquid (on Friday) and didn't bother to dry it out. |
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