I just finished pulling the old clutch, and had full intentions of taking the old flywheel to our local machine shop to be resurfaced. The guy there said $50CAD, and he'd have it done in about two hours.

My question is, the flywheel on there looks perfect. The previous fibre plate left it in a prefectly flat, grooveless, mirrored finish. Do I even need to get it resurfaced, or can I save myself the $50?.. or is it imparitive that I get it done if the wheel's like that?

Thanks!

 

its not supposed to look "mirrored" its supposed to be klike a brake rotor (kind of) after its turned, but with a different pattern, and i dont know about 2 hours to resurface it, i had mine done in under 10 minutes, cost me only 20bucks


[Modified by CIVICtypeS, 6:47 AM 7/5/2002]

 

Shat. I'm not too sure what to think. I was under the impression that as long as it was perfectly flat, I should be okay.

I'm more worried about the $50 than anything.

That's like... a couple tanks of gas... haha

 

Always resurface the flywheel when installing a new clutch or you most likely will experience premature clutch failure!

It should say so on the paperwork for your new clutch.

 

when you get it back from the machine shop it will have little swirles in it that go the opposite way of how it spins. this will improve clutch bite

 

For the time it took, I got it done anyways. While it was at the shop, I pulled all my useless AC stuff out.

That basically shaved about 50lbs off.

New clutch grabs HARD. I like...