Yikes, flywheel likely needs resurfaced too. Do you drive with your foot on the clutch pedal at all? Unless the clutch is not up to the horsepower, it should have lasted quite awhile.
I thought about if I was riding the clutch, and I don't think I do. Generally I don't when I drive my daily, but the Darts pedal assembly is different. I mean, I've daily driven manual cars since I first got my license almost 10 years ago and I've never replaced a clutch. A lot of my commute is in traffic too.
The trans shop thinks it could be the spacers between the bellhousing not being sufficient causing the throwout bearing to ride on the pressure plate, but Hotchkis doesn't think so. Regardless, Hotchkis wanted to check it out to "make it right" if they did something wrong, so we towed it over there today. We'll see what comes out of that.
My T56 Magnum TOB is supposed to ride on the pressure plate, by design.
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The CSC is designed to be compressed by more than 1⁄2” by the pressure plate fingers when at rest.
There is, however, a proper way to shim it. Your TOB style may vary, but it can be assembled improperly.
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Clutch slippage will result if the CSC bottoms out and is partially depressing the pressure plate fingers at rest
