Dester;
My question to you, if you have the whole thing a part once, why not put in
the pressure plate, besides the pp springs do get weak over time and could
have if not likely caused your clutch failure in the first place. Just like
the fly-wheel the face of the used pressure plate may not be true. Once
again causing pre-mature clutch failure.
The ONLY way to face a fly-wheel is on lathe type machine, the reason you
are facing it in the first place is to make it true. It is a bit more
complicated than doing brake rotors, but not much (with the correct
equipment)
L. John
Your local **Real Hemi** Owner
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chuong Nguyen" <dester223@hotmail.com>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Wednesday, August 02, 2000 1:27 AM
Subject: DML: now: facing flywheel was:truck apart need help (was DC sucks)
> I don't believe to have the flywheel turned is costly. Should be about
the
> price of turning a pair of rotors. Anyways... I've seen a couple shops
in
> operation, and some will get a right angle die grinder, go over the
flywheel
> and charge the customer for "facing the flywheel" Though I believe
that's
> nonsense, the shops claim that this trues up the flywheel enough, and they
> haven't had any claims by doing so.
>
> >From the whole year of (high school) automotive technical schooling, I've
> been taught that this is an uncorrect procedure, because it won't do good
> around hot spots or anything.
>
> Oh, the reason for this post is to further my understandings on how
> different shops operate, and what is the "correct" procedures to do a job.
> Personally, I believe it is worth 15-25 bucks to have a machine shop do
> it... but if you guys believe this method is correct, I'll use it in the
> future... is this an approved method? any comments?
> -Dester
>
> PS. why would you need a new pressure plate? I believe they are
reusuable?
> or is this just a personal wanting?
>
> <<BTW: My '97 could use a clutch and just for hell-of-it I asked the
Service
> Manager (who I personally know) how much he would have to charge me to do
> the work, $600 without facing the flywheel and that is at a small town
> Dealer. I could purchase a good clutch/pressure plate/through-out bearing
> from a friend that owns an Auto Parts Store for about $180 (remember this
is
> his cost). I would bet that I could find a local mechanic that would do
the
> job for $200 +/- labor.>>
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