New Clutch Question
I smoked my clutch last week(took off in the wrong gear with the trailer attached). This was driver errow. The truck has 139000 miles on the oem clutch. It still works fine. The question is would y...
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bobsallyh wrote:
Well since we fulltime and pulling a 40' fiver with our 2003 Ram dually quad, the throwout bearing went south at only 189,000 on the clock. Absolutely no problem with that. Was on the road and a shop put in a clutch that only made it 29,000, something wrong with that! So 2 months ago while at our snowbird location in Yuma, AZ., I had a South Bend clutch along with the hydraulics installed. Can't tell you anything about how it is or will be since there is only about 3,000 miles on it. I do know that the throwout bearing on the SB will probably be the weak link. Only aftermarket stuff on this truck is the exhaust brake and fiver hitch.
You're correct, if you are easy on the clutch, it may outlast the throwout, but you shouldn't have to worry about it for a long time, especially given how long the first one lasted. Tells me a lot of over the road miles (throwout is only doing work when your foot is on the clutch) and you don't sit at stop lights with the clutch pedal depressed.
SB is the gold standard for clutches. I abused an OFE clutch pretty good and got 100kmi out of it.
You should not have to touch the clutch or any of its components likely longer than you'll have the truck unless you're shooting for 500kmmiles!
