Resurfacing clutch

[insaneradio]

Evening Guys,

I am considering resurfacing my clutch. I find several refacing disks on E-Pay. What tools are needed? Are they readily available?

Thanks,

Dave

[RobertKB]

There are a couple of places that do that kind of work that have been mentioned by members on the forum. Fort Wayne Clutch was one of them I believe. Hopefully other members will chime in with their favourites as well. You could also use the Search function and I am sure you would come up with the names. Good luck with the project.

[David Strieb]

Try a local comercial clutch/brake repair shop.

[BobT-47P15]

We have a small clutch shop here, a one man operation, and he did a

good job for fairly reasonable price. Just need to check around in

your area.

[cwcars88]

It sounds like you want to buy a disk and resurface the clutch or flywheel your self, DON'T do it. You will never get a flat sureface, take it to a machinne shop that has the right equipment. I just had it done on my 57 chev for 35 bucks.

[insaneradio]

Thanks guys. I will leave it to the experts.

[Flatie46]

Knoxville Clutch and Brake did mine, but I'm sure you can find someone closer to you.

[Don Coatney]

Your question is somewhat un clear. Are you are wanting to re-surface your pressure plate and flywheel? Or find a new clutch disc, or all the above?

If you want to re-surface your flywheel find a machine shop that can use a grinding wheel to do so. Re-surfacing with a lathe tool will not work. An aged flywheel has developed hot spots that are hardened and a lathe tool will chatter not giving a true cut. The surface must be ground while rotating in a true circle to grind away the hard spots.

I suggest you send your pressure plate to a speciality company who rebuilds them installing new springs and making proper adjustments. Pasted below is contact information for one company who does this work.

A replacement disc can be purchased at many locations (including the one listed below) or can be re-lined also at many locations.

[Flatie46]

Don, does it have to be rotated as it's ground? The reason I ask is where I work I've seen several guys bring flywheels in to be ground on our surface grinders. They grind in a linear motion, would this not be sufficent?

[Don Coatney]

Don, does it have to be rotated as it's ground? The reason I ask is where I work I've seen several guys bring flywheels in to be ground on our surface grinders. They grind in a linear motion, would this not be sufficent?

In my opinion I dont think a surface grinder would do well in this application. But this is just my humble opinion. If the flywheel is chucked up in a lathe and spinning true as the grinding wheel is doing it's job then the surface will be true. If the flywheel is secured to a non rotating table as the grinder makes passes the likely hood of a less than true (spinning surface) seems logical. On a non rotating surface such as an engine head or engine manifold, a surface grinde should work well. But this is once again just my opinion and open for debate.