Is this act2600 clutch still in good shape? PICS!

[rowlex]

Help!! Let me know if this clutch is still in good shape to use.. I was told their are 1200 easy miles on it. With your responce please point out any problems you notice THANKS!

Sorry about the low quality pics, its all i have right now.

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[1fast97gsx]

looks like it may have had a few launches on it but the disk isn't worn to the rivots so that's good. Check the springs and the entire hub for any play. The hub shouldn't have any and the springs should be very tight too. Ever seen a brand new act street disk? Compare the depth of the rivots from a new one to that one and that will tell you how "worn" it is. On the pressure plate look for scoring and large burn marks. I wouldn't pay more than $150 for that clutch simply because it's used and makes it worthless. They're only like $350 new so I'd play it safe unless you don't mind potentially having to change it again in a year or so. What's with the roughness around the outer edge of the pressure plate surface in some of those pics? Is it really rough or is that just the camera / lighting?

 

[rowlex]

from what im told the spots on the outer edge of the pressure plate is heat marks which are bad. On those areas I cannot feel any machine grooves left on the plate it is pretty smooth. On most of the entire rest of the plate I can still feel machine grooves.

 

[kelvinb]

disc looks good, are the springs rattling around at all or still stiff?

 

[rowlex]

disc looks good, are the springs rattling around at all or still stiff?

springs are still all stiff, none rattle, my main concern is the pressure plate

 

[1fast97gsx]

Personally I'd just buy a brand new clutch kit .... it's hard to tell from those pics but it still looks like something is up with that pressure plate. Maybe it wasn't properly torqued down or something, its just rather odd that it only looks bad on 1/2 of it.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

i'm wondering if that pressure plate was used on another clutch disc before. either way, disc looks good. scrap the pressure plate. from what i'm looking at in the pics, i see heat marks all the way around on the thing. better to install a new one and it work right than to install that one (which looks like it's been heated up) and wonder if it'll slip or not.

 

[TurboDSM90]

THat pressure plate has seen a few really hard launches or more than 1 disc in its lifetime.

That looks to be disc number 2 perhaps even 3 to that pressure plate.
I am on disc number 3 with my 2600 PP, and it looked similar to that plate.

 

[jdmjason]

THat pressure plate has seen a few really hard launches or more than 1 disc in its lifetime.

That looks to be disc number 2 perhaps even 3 to that pressure plate.
I am on disc number 3 with my 2600 PP, and it looked similar to that plate.

So you can re-use pressure plates with new disks? What do I need to look for in my old pressure plate to see if it's still useable.

 

[v8s_are_slow]

you can but i sure as heck wouldn't recommend it. it's about the same as getting a brake job done and not turning the rotors. only, if you have a problem because you reinstalled a used pressure plate, you have to pull out the tranny, instead of just a tire. i've done it a few times with a puck disc but i've never taken the chance with an organic disc.

but if you were totally broke and had no other choice, then i'd at least be looking for hot spots and where it looks glazed. also looking for any grooves, etc. from where the rivots from the old clutch disc may have been wearing into it.