Manual trans question

[GunnerSchenck]

Haha!...Should I do the whole kit with the bearing and slave?

Yes.

 

[drowssap]

Yes.

Thanks for the response

 

[JeepinJarhead03]

as for the flywheel just be aware the flywheel is not flat, it's concave - at least, it's supposed to be

and for 200 dollars cheaper than mopar i don't know if Luk's flywheel is properly concave and it takes 3-7kmi for it to really jump up and tell you how wrong Luc got it, if that indeed turns out to be the case

as for the clutch itself, i havent heard anything negative about luk's clutches on the KJ's, just make sure to get an SKF throwout bearing , the throwout bearing that comes with that luk clutch is plastic *meh*

 

[sota]

your bell housing grew a beard. tell it to shave already. November is almost over.
and if there's that much material sticking out, you can only imagine what's bound up inside.

 

[drowssap]

your bell housing grew a beard. tell it to shave already. November is almost over.
and if there's that much material sticking out, you can only imagine what's bound up inside.

Yeah...I am getting my hands on the complete kit today and will hopefully have this thing opened up by tomorrow. One nice thing is that this job was cause to get a new toy! Went to HF and picked up one of those snazzy trans scissor jacks. I saw a thread where a member posted info about his clutch job and he dropped the trans with the transfer case still attached. That makes the job a littler easier so at least I have that to look forward to!

 

[CactusJacked]

That's what I did too, bought a HF trans jack. It'll probably sit for years collecting dust though. I dropped the whole transmission/case as one, just be sure to chain it down well to the jack. Being lifted, I didn't need to raise the Jeep at all to work on the clutch, just rolled the trans back out of the way. I would have needed to raise the Jeep if I wanted to slide the trans out from under, but that wasn't necessary.