clutch durability

[Tumu Rock]

--- In DSN_KLR650@yahoogroups.com, Bogdan Swider wrote:

> > Automobile and pickup clutches seem to last much longer then they

used to.

> It s seems that in the 60s and 70s by 50K miles you d have to replace

one.

> Maybe that s because I lived in the middle of Chicago. Anyone know if > there s been a breakthrough in the technology? >

They stopped using asbestos as a component in the friction plates... don't know what they replaced it with... da Vermonster