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After 75K miles I decided I should change the clutch again when the opportunity for a temp garage space presented itself. Pulled the old Luk components and found the rivet depth to be 80-100 thou still. I saw a spec of 120 thou in the service manual but 80-100 still looked pretty good. Anyway, I had put together another Luk package including slave and flywheel. I got the disk and pressure plate from a car parts place in Oregon that sells on eBay. When I went to install them, I saw that the disk has what appears to be a Ford P/N, f87z-7560-a, and the rivet depths were only 60-80 thou. Overall thickness across the faces was a few couple 10's of thou more than the old used Luk, though I don't think I recorded the numbers. Under time pressure and not sure of what to make of it, I just went ahead with the installation. The truck has 160K miles on it and I figure this is likely the last clutch anyway.
I can't find that particular P/N online, and wanted to check here first before going back to the seller. Not that there's anything that can be done at this late date, but I'll ask him about it anyway.
Is that rivet depth unusual? Anyone have any idea why a new disk would have such shallow rivets, if indeed that is shallow?
I can't find that particular P/N online, and wanted to check here first before going back to the seller. Not that there's anything that can be done at this late date, but I'll ask him about it anyway.
Is that rivet depth unusual? Anyone have any idea why a new disk would have such shallow rivets, if indeed that is shallow?
