Appears to be a well made product

Burning smell when backing my boat

I have a 2004 1/2 Dodge Ram diesel, which I've used for four years to tow my bass boat. I got 95K miles out of the stock clutch, no problems. I decided to "upgrade" to a Centerforce DF clutch, rated at 800 ft-lb. I installed it in October.

I now have 5000 miles on it. It doesn't slip or chatter (yet!) but when backing my boat the clutch smells like it's burning up, which never happened with the stock one. I called Centerforce; they said that wasn't normal and it must be something I was doing wrong.

Great.

Apparently this is a light duty clutch, not really designed for towing. Maybe they really meant it was rated for 800 INCH pounds of torque? Wish I'd known that before I shelled out $1000 bucks!

I'll be surprised if it makes it to 10,000 miles. I'll baby it along, maybe I can make it through Summer - then 'll replace it with a stock clutch (which costs half as much).

Hope it doesn't decide to disintegrate on a boat ramp somewhere!

none really i actualy liked stock better

pedal feel was way softer then stock which i didnt like too lose.

got the clutch 6/25/03. car was in the shop for repairs from 9/2/03 to 11/12/03. 11/29/03 the cluch gives out in 3rd gear not sure exactly what failed yet but definately clutch related. pedal is floored and does not come back.

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-Solid Design -Made with Kevlar -Friction material mounting plate is 10x thicker than OEM, will stand up to abuse. -Near stock pedal feel. (Better than stock in my opinion) -It really grabs.

None really. No instructions, but if you need instructions for something like this you shouldn''t be working on cars.

This is a very sweet clutch. After the proper break in period (500 miles stop and go), the clutch grabs but not in the way expected. Very very very smooth engagment at lower RPM''s, but relentless in higher RPM drops. NOTE: Machine the flywheel or suffer with no clutch. The friction disc is THICKER then an OEM one. Pressure plate design is interesting. It has duel center springs in comparison to OEM which has a single center spring. Comes with both release and pilot bearings and alignment tool. NOTE: I now SPIN tires on a 1-2 shift... :oD

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