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On Thu, 2002-05-02 at 21:29, Jim Adney wrote: > On 1 May 2002, at 22:47, Russ wolfe wrote: > > > There used to be wear grooves in the friction material on most clutch > > disks. I have always gone that with assessing clutch wear. > > But, I haven't bought a VW clutch in quite a few years. > > I NEVER realized that these were wear grooves. So when you get near the > bottom of the groove it's time to replace the disk? > They served 2 purposes. One was a wear indicator, and the other was to help break any surface vacuum that might develop, and make the clutch not want to release from the flywheel or pressure plate. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe