What Have You Done To Your Tdm Today?

[fixitsan]

Changed the clutch --> https://www.flickr.com/photos/142331699@N02/40246958814

 

Fitted EBC heavy duty clutch plates, a new clutch cable (so smoooooth)  and taking in some of what Favs has said about replacing all his springs with heavy duty ones I only swapped 3 springs (in an alternating pattern), and it feels good   It takes more effort to pull the lever in but it isn't at the stage of being uncomfortable if using it a lot in town traffic. But then again I have big hands.

 

The original plate stack (9 plates)  were made up of the 2 outer plates having larger 'lands', manufactured from a different material to the rest. See the pic, the darker coloured material and large lands was an outer plate

 

The new clutch has 9 plates all of which look more like the darker coloured one one in the photo, and all have the larger lands. The 2 innermost plates of the original stack looked very dry and a bit glazed.(as per photo)

 

The new plates were soaked in oil for 3 days before installing. I don't know if that's necessary these days but I still do it !