How long should a clutch last?

dag019 said:

It is not difficult to remove. But I have to jack the chassis legs apart to remove and refit and if I can get away without would definitly make things easier and quicker.

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Very sophisticated. I usually just hammer mine in and out.

Brown said:

Very sophisticated. I usually just hammer mine in and out.

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Don’t worry it has the dents in it from where the previous ham fisted owner used that technique
But a bottle jack and some pieces of fence post are a far more elegant solution and make lining the holes up on reassembly much easier.

jamesmartin said:

quality of parts varies, i find that frequently with well used trucks original clutch did 130k replacement 50k then another 100k or release bearings ,lever etc failing far sooner

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lynall said:

What I notice at work is nowadays the friction material on the friction plate rarely fails, it might wear out at silly miles, but they never make it to silly miles as something else always fails first, release bearing is by far the main failure point, other one is friicton plate damper springs making a break for freedom.

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And another example of exactly this. The friction material still in perfect health and the cause of my issues a damper spring in three pieces. I assume this was causing the clutch to not sit squarely as three of the cover plate spring fingers were dipped lower than the rest of them (the phot makes it look better than it actually was, bottom three fingers).

dag019 said:

And another example of exactly this. The friction material still in perfect health and the cause of my issues a damper spring in three pieces. I assume this was causing the clutch to not sit squarely as three of the cover plate spring fingers were dipped lower than the rest of them (the phot makes it look better than it actually was, bottom three fingers).

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the damper spring would just effect damping not the clutch cover fingers,thats jut poor in itself

Seems to be quite a bit of wear on the clutch fingers?

On the trucks we always remove the inspection plate for a look see, not unusual to be attacked by ball bearings or hit on the head by a clutch cover spring as happened to workmate last week!

Talking of wear on clutches... and hoping I'm not hijacking this here...

But do the LOF powersprings cause any undue wear on clutches?