why was this in with the clutch?

Post by **TOONGA** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 6:33 pm

Well I did my brumbys clutch turns out it was a 225 mm 21 spline job, original from the factory with the little boomerang shape they put on subaru parts

I had a clutch and pressure plate from another brumby so all I needed was a thrust bearing which I got with the seat for free from the wreckers

but heres the kicker when I pulled the dead pressure plate off the engine a bolt dropped out with the clutch not to mention the broken finger off the pressure plate

see the thrust bearing that lovely blue is because it was seized and was slowly working its way through the fingers on the pressure plate the clutch was right down to the rivets

the bolt the broken finger and the blue thrust bearing

that means just over 200000 kms on one clutch

(lucky or was it driven nicely?)

TOONGA

AlpineRaven · Post by **AlpineRaven** » Tue Dec 15, 2009 9:20 pm

Nice(!) Not first time ive seen it...
Cheers
AP

AndrewT · Post by **AndrewT** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:03 am

Wow that's certainly an odd thing to find, a big bolt, lucky it didn't find it's way up into things!

TOONGA wrote: so all I needed was a thrust bearing which I got with the seat for free from the wreckers

Dude you really should just buy a brand new thrust bearing. It's a wearable item, a bearing, and kindof a big job to replace. They don't cost much.

Post by **TOONGA** » Wed Dec 16, 2009 10:33 am

AndrewT wrote:Wow that's certainly an odd thing to find, a big bolt, lucky it didn't find it's way up into things!

Dude you really should just buy a brand new thrust bearing. It's a wearable item, a bearing, and kindof a big job to replace. They don't cost much.

I would have bought a whole clutch kit normally but Im in the process of getting everything together to run an EJ16 with a carby (holley 320 hopefully) so Im doing it on the cheap

Im looking at getting an EJ dual range 5 speed as well to go with the EJ16 and I will need a clutch kit for that so the less money I apend on the current engine and box the better

I must admit I was really lucky when I got the engine out I was expecting a 24 spline clutch and a wait for a clutch kit from the east coast

in the end the total cost was time (around 4 hours)

40 minutes trying to get the engine back in

TOONGA