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Clutch throw-out bearing

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 4:54 am
by Robert Grunau
A friend tried a Moss roller throw-out bearing in his TD and it started to howl in a very short time. Replaced it with a carbon thrust and no further problems. Nothing wrong with the carbon thrust bearing. I am re-restoring my TC and after 40,000 miles there was no wear on the carbon throw-out bearing. Just make sure the clutch return spring is doing its job so the throw-out bearing is not in contact with the clutch during normal driving. Bob Grunau FWIW. Although my inbuilt conventional wisdom tends to feel that a roller release bearing would be better than the carbon one (less friction and does not break up) experience on other sites (esp the V8 site which I frequent) says otherwise. Apparently the roller bearing wears badly and thus becomes noisy, whereas the carbon bearing has to break up completely before it does this. Ian Thomson.
>On Page # 77 of the Moss Catalogue # MGT 0204 , listed as item # 7 , Part # >190-295 , Release Bearing , Roller Bearing Type. I would like to know , >from the membership , as to what , if any , the advantages are of employing >this part rather than the conventional one , Part # 190-290 ? My
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>skills are passable , but my engineering savy is sadly lacking . > >Cheers to all ; respectfully : Jack Emdall , TC # 6768 > > > > >Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to
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Clutch throw-out bearing

Posted: Thu Apr 18, 2002 6:56 am
by DenKlemm@aol.com
I too put a roller bearing in my TD. It failed very quickly. Now I use nothing, but the carbon one. Dennis Klemm