Clutch Repair & Adjustment

Clutches are essential to the operation of any car or truck with a manual transmission. Learn why clutch adjustment and repair is so essential to the proper operation of your car.

Hydraulic release and self- adjusting cable systems use constant contact release bearings with zero free play. Excessive free play causes incomplete release and insufficient free play causes slipping.

As disc friction material wears, the pressure plate moves closer to the flywheel, and the diaphragm spring fingers pivot outward toward the transmission. This causes a gradual decrease in the distance between the release bearing and the diaphragm fingers. Due to this normal wear in the clutch system, release systems that provide for external free-play adjustment must be checked and adjusted periodically.

Pressure Plate	Clutch Disc
T/O Bearing	Pilot Bearing
Clutch Master	Clutch Slave

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