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Old 08-17-2014, 09:14 AM   #11 (permalink)
fusion210
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Winsight - '06 Honda Insight
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Meh on the clutch, they're designed to last a long time. They're also designed to slip.
My beater lasted 65k hypermiled miles on a junkyard setup. A crusty flywheel from one car, disc from another car and finally the pressure plate from an entirely different third car. I couldn't tell you which one I grabbed the throw out bearing from. I didn't even use an alignment tool.

It only died because I was testing a reprogrammed PCM I bought to see if it was authentic. That alignment tool would have come in handy at 7,700rpm! The friction material on the disc managed to disappear. Limped it home and slapped in a different setup.

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