Thread: Clutch change

Originally Posted by Fausto79

appreciate all the help from everyone. what an awesome forum. i have a lot of tools at home and a mechanic friend who i am sure i can talk into helping me. just need to make a centreing tool for the clutch plate.thanks for all your offers, i should have it covered though. as i said, probably have to wait until after wedding anyway. in the meantime i'll just drive my honda or drive the disco gently. it still runs ok, i just think its at the start of it going bad for the clutch. since i revd the hell out of it when it was still cold on boggy sand.

Some one has to have a broken input shaft from an R380 you can use, other wise wait til its out and then get a universal plastic alignment tool from one of the auto shops - you can do it by eye while its out.

Never used a clutch alignment tool in my life. Was taught to do it by fingertip feel. That is you do up the bolts by hand and feel around with your fingers and centralize it that way. Not saying it is the best but can been done quite easy. Just need patience. Have done a 300tdi clutch twice this way and have never replaced the flywheel bush as it has been undamaged. Used a new one to compare and the original factory bush was still ok so left it on the flywheel.Cheers