operation of a clutch

[soon2bdropped]

okay this is kinda general question and not meant for my car but i;m havin a bit trouble understand how the pressure plate release the clutch.. don't tell me to search or google or even go to howstuffworks because i did it all spent 2 day.. this is a clutch from a car at work.. i;'m still wet behind the ears

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1. now the rotor looking this is the PP disk to the left of it is the cover. now look a little bit up. u see an arm with a pin.. what is that called anywats how does that work.. does that flexes so when you press the fingers it moves the cover back(since the cover is connected to the disk with that pin) and so that the pin flexs it moves the disc away from the clutch?


2. or the fingers are built into the pressure plate disk ad when u press on it it pushes just the disk back. but inorder for the disk to push back the cover has to be moved out some it can accomdate the space needed to pull the disk away from clutch thats why i think number 1 is right.

[NAiL05]

1. Its jsut a dowel to line up the pp when installing. It has nothing to do with the movement.

2. Go find a cutout of a PP on google i am pretty sure. There are springs behind the metal part. The cover doesnt have to move any...You press in the throwout bearing hits the fingers and relieves the clamping force from the pp to disc. Then when the throwout bearing is released it reclamps. Really not a hard concept to understand.

[soon2bdropped]

so basicially theres a gap between the cover and disk already so the fingers are built into the disk and when the bearing press on it and pulls the disk away from clutch? is this right if so i GOT IT..

[NAiL05]

Yea sure.

[soon2bdropped]

Yea sure.

ok anybody else? and was that scarcasm?

[LinX]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnHFiSO2MoA

[cp[mike]]

http://youtube.com/watch?v=FnHFiSO2MoA

wrong video. thats how to install a clutch.

this is how a clutch works: http://youtube.com/watch?v=grp-virt7vI

but anyway he doesnt explain how the PP works..

those fingers are sprung levers, holding the metal surface clamped down tight onto the clutch disc. as you push the clutch it expands the slave cylinder, which presses the throwout bearing against the ends of those fingers. that pulls the metal surface away from the clutch disc, releasing the clamp on it... aka, neutral.

[soon2bdropped]

ok so the PP is stationary with the flywheel.. when the TB flexes on the finger does the PP cover move back any or just the friction disk.. if its just the friction disk than i assume that there is a gap between PP cover and friction disk right.. thanks..

[soon2bdropped]

ok so the PP is stationary with the flywheel.. when the TB flexes on the finger does the PP cover move back any or just the friction disk.. if its just the friction disk than i assume that there is a gap between PP cover and friction disk right.. thanks..

bump right?

[cp[mike]]

bump right?

read my post right?