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Originally Posted by jlex
Sorry I don't have any answers to your questions, but will be following your progress for advice for the future of my '88. It has the original clutch also. With only 35,000 miles on mine, I don't know when I'll need clutch work, but would like to be prepared. How many miles on yours?
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I think I was one of Pelican Parts guinea pigs on this upgrade some years ago. I read about it somewhere and called and discussed it with them and ended up sending parts back and fourth till we got it right. About a year later it was all grouped together on one comprehensive page; makes life easy.
I think the thing to understand is that it is a big chunk of vulcanized rubber that ages just like rubber lines or tires. My car lives in the South East (hot) and I blew the rubber clutch probably more than ten years ago. I would guess that even a babied clutch at 30 years of age is ready to fail. When it fails there are three metal tabs that will engage for limp-home mode, but your trans is then metal on metal with the engine, and I wouldn't want to drive any distance like that.
Also, any NOS rubber clutch is probably 30 years old as well, and sitting around in some warehouse is not much better than in your garage. Spring centered turbo clutch disk is the ONLY way to go.
Bob