Thread: dual mass flywheel.. how loose is to loose?

I fitted a solid flywheel to a td5 recently. It is definitely noisier. Mainly when in neutral idling. It chatters. Could reshim the gearbox to help

Everyone I have spoken to about fitting a solid flywheel to a Td5 has said if you do it, you will soon pull it out and go back to dual mass. If this is true than the cheaper cost of fitting the solid flywheel is a false economy.

From memory I think there is mention of vibrations. been a few years since I replaced mine.
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Gillie

Originally Posted by Gillie

Everyone I have spoken to about fitting a solid flywheel to a Td5 has said if you do it, you will soon pull it out and go back to dual mass. If this is true than the cheaper cost of fitting the solid flywheel is a false economy.

From memory I think there is mention of vibrations. been a few years since I replaced mine.
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Gillie

How many people have you spoken to and what were the reasons?
I’m seriously considering the switch on my 130 as the clutch is slipping and she’s just ticked over 200,000kms.
Everyone I’ve spoken to swears by the single mass change over, mechanics included.

I don’t care about noise at all, just reliability, simplicity and cost.
The info on AULRO is mostly a bit old afaics and there’s one bloke who had to rebuild a gearbox soon after converting, but that doesn’t mean failure was caused by flywheel.
I’m interested in real experiences from defender owners

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Col

My adivice is to stay with the dual mass unless you're converting to auto.

Originally Posted by Gillie

Everyone I have spoken to about fitting a solid flywheel to a Td5 has said if you do it, you will soon pull it out and go back to dual mass. If this is true than the cheaper cost of fitting the solid flywheel is a false economy.

From memory I think there is mention of vibrations. been a few years since I replaced mine.
cheers
Gillie

My mechanic says switching to solid is more expensive first up, the next clutch change is cheaper.

I’m undecided which way I’ll go, leaning towards sticking with dual mass

There seems to be different options on the ‘rattle’ when running solid.

Ive driven quite a few earlier bt50s and rangers fitted with solid flywheels from dual mass on clutch changes, and you can notice more gear noise while going through the gear range with the solid flywheel. I would personally stick with whats factory fitted, how often are you planning on having to change clutchs, to warrant fitting a single mass flywheel conversion anyway.

If it has a dual mass from factory,its the only way to go,unless you want issues.

I honestly can’t remember it was a few years ago. I don’t understand why it is dearer to change over as the solid ones were a lot cheaper. When I changed my clutch I was warned that if I went solid I would be changing it back as the vibrations would drive me mad. It wasn’t a job I wanted to do twice so I went like for like. They are an absolute work of art. This advice was from an independent landrover mechanic. I’d reckon blacknight would be on the money and probably done a few more of these than most. If I was to do it again I would pay attention to the play in the transfer case and sort that out whilst I was there. Not a particularly hard job but time consuming and my god it was greasy!