rey445588 - 3/16/2005 10:09 PM
Hi,
Can someone tell me where I could buy an off road or heavy duty clutch kit for a 280GE (1985) fitted with a five speed manual transmission. Please let me know if you have any info.
Thank you....
Clutches die an early death of two reasons:
1.
The clutch can not provide the grip to transfer engin torque into the gearbox. In that case a stronger clutch is needed. However a stock clutch will hold the torque from a stock engine.
2.
The slipping of the clutch when taking off, heats the clutch disk and wears it down. This heat alone can cause the clutch to loose grip eaven though it works well when cold. If driver lets the clutch slipp for long time at high throttle and revs, the clutch dies an early death. A clutch that works better at high temp can better tollerate that kind of misuse.
It seams that your friend needs a lower gear for his driving and/or a driving lesson, -to save his clutch from the "heavy duty".
The clutch is an on/off equipment and if the driving (driver) requires using it any other way under high engine output, you can not expect any clutch to last for long.
If the 280GE has the 5 speed Getrag gearbox it is likely that a lower gear is needed as the 1st gear of that gearbox is stupidly high.