Break in tips? New McLeod RST resurfaced flywheel

New clutch same steel McLoud flywheel but I had the flywheel resurfaced. Any tips for the break period? Thanks

robmustang201528 said:

New clutch same steel McLoud flywheel but I had the flywheel resurfaced. Any tips for the break period? Thanks

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No different that a new setup....easy for the first 500 miles ...best to do in city stop and go traffic. Then should be broke in. Probably will have some stuttering/chattering at first.

yeah deff stop and go is the way to do it .. ive replaced 4 clutches in my day and always did stop and go and never had a issue later .. 2 of the cars are still on the road with the clutch i put in them (friends bought the cars )

Like stated above be easy on it and don't rev it out. I also did rev matched down shifts to increase the amount of engagements in city driving. I noticed mine started feeling good around the 250-300 mile mark. I almost always rev match down shift now except during emergency braking.

In the past I have sand blasted my pressure plate and flywheel surfaces to knock the break in time in half.

Anthony 05 GT said:

In the past I have sand blasted my pressure plate and flywheel surfaces to knock the break in time in half.

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I glass beaded a Centerforce dual friction pressure plate and flywheel on my fox body back in the day and it ripped the friction pads right off the clutch disc due to increased grip lol.

Never had that problem. All that does is give you a wearable surface which is excellent for fast break in. Maybe you had a defective disc, I've seen that more than once when it comes to friction material

Possibly could have had a defective bond on the disc however when I sent the whole assembly back to Centerforce they claimed they had never seen that happen.

It definitely wasn't from glass beading. We've been doing that for years and so have a lot of other people.