Monday, 21 May 2012

Putting in the new clutch

 The picture below shows the old flywheel - which was in average condition
 Here I have the rear oil seal off cleaning up the area around the seal.
 The orange ring is the new seal installed - pretty straight forward just a few bolts.
 So above and below you can see the spigot bearing in the centre which needs to be replaced with the clutch. However I did not have the right SST (Specialist Tool) as Toyota call it to remove the bearing. The tool costs $50, so of course I looked for another option. I searched the net and dudes were saying use wet bread packed into the hole and then hit a socket into it. Sound crazy. But it works.
 The picture below shows that after three blows and packking it three times with wet bread and the bearing was out. Dudes on the internet didnt believe it would work etc etc but it is quite simple and infact very ingenious. It uses hydrostatic pressure to transmit the force of the socket blow to the water. The bread just holds the water in the hole.

Above is the new clutch ready to install and below is the newly machined clutch, looks pretty flash. The newly installed spigot bearing is also visible.

 Here the spigot alignment tool is used to centre the clutch plate.
 Then the cover is simply installed and the bolts tightened. Overtightened one and it snapped off in the flywheel - too bad not gonna drill it out plenty of bolts to hold clutch on - I will fix it next clutch change in 100,000ks.

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