It's worth going to the main dealers for a price, then when you get it for a fraction of their price, you can pat yourself on the back
been recently to the ford dealers to get me a clutch kit (friction disc, pressure plate, bearing) and they wanted almost 300€ for it!!
that IS a rip-off isnt' it?
i currently have a worn friction disc and according to the advice given here to me about a stiff clutch pedal, i should also change the pressure
plate...
is it cheaper for me to get these from the uk and ship them to spain?
£50 delivered (to Spain) from
HERE although if you want a named brand it may cost a few quid more.
It's worth going to the main dealers for a price, then when you get it for a fraction of their price, you can pat yourself on the back
Genuine Ford clutch's are in reallity made by a company called LUK, so you need to find a uk company that will post you out a LUK clutch. I bought one once from the dealer and it was £120 in about 1988. The same clutch from LUK through a wholesaler was about £90. So shop around.
Burton Power (not normally considered to be the cheapest) catalogue shows 2L Pinto clutch kit at £77.95.
WWW.Burtonpower.com for on line sales.
I paid about £80 from my local parts factor this year.
Going rate is about £45 +Vat + delivery
Try a Google for BuyPartsBy
Obsolete Ford Parts do Pinto clutch kit for £11
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Originally posted by jollygreengiant
Genuine Ford clutch's are in reallity made by a company called LUK, .... was about £90.
thanks guys.
the price difference is so large, it makes me think the dealers just pump up the prices for no reason... i'm kind of worried as i just ordered a
full set of engine joints, gaskets, bolts.. 
its gonna cost me an arm!
I think you need to find out where your local garages (not main dealers) get there parts from
here in Edinburgh we have 'pentland components' for most bits, alot cheeper than any of the dealers - there must be somewhere like that near
you ?
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Originally posted by robertst
i'm kind of worried as i just ordered a full set of engine joints, gaskets, bolts..
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Originally posted by mcerd1
what bolts did/ do you need ?
you should be able to reuse the head ones unless they are damaged
as for the flywheel, burtons sell HD ones and you can get ARP race spec ones too (might be more expencive than ford)
i thought once they were torqued up they couldnt be re-used. they're the torx stretch bolts...
Thats what i thought too, but according to the guy who did the work on my engine they reuse them all the time no problem (they mostly build 2.0 pinto
stock car engines)
but if you don't trust them then I suppose the new ones won't hurt - i might still use new ones on mine
the flywheel ones have been known to shear on tuned engines
so you could get heavy duty or ARP bolts or better yet get the flywheel dowelled onto the crank
or the like me get a cosworth crank [9 bolts instead of 6] and a pinto steel flywheel with cossie bolt holes or a lightened cossie flywheel [has a
bigger clutch], but this is not the cheep option