Well I believe they mean normal as to the way you're going to drive it.
Right. You need to go out and thrash it the first race or 2. I've gone
through 2 clutches in 2 racing seasons. I think the first one had something
to do with the flywheel coming loose and the second time the one of the tabs
that locate the pressure plate on the assembly broke. Oh well.
Charly Mitchel
----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert M. Lang" <lang@isis.mit.edu>
To: <fot@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, May 12, 2005 8:08 AM
Subject: Re: Clutch Bedding
> Hi,
>
> This must be the season of the TR6 clutch failure... my race car clutch
> gave up after only 5 years (of very hard abuse). But probably gave out
> because I was stupid when I installed the clutch disk and didn't "prep"
> the pressure plate and flywheel.
>
> At any rate, I have a new clutch disk and PP installed and ready to.
>
> The question is - the manufacturer (SPEC) indicates that you MUST bed the
> clutch by driving in a "normal" fashion for the first 450 to 500 miles.
> Seeing that my car is totally not-streetable, that leaves me in a
> dilemma - do I just drive the thing and hope it lasts another 5 years or
> should I make some sort of effort to bed the clutch.
>
> What do you folks do?
>
> rml
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