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clutch durability

Posted: Thu Dec 11, 2008 12:12 pm
by 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