06st4ng

Well i'm on my second clutch at 50k miles. Both stock clutches. I'll admit to driving the car hard, but not hard enough to be burning a clutch out every 25k miles. Regardless I refuse to go with another "stock" clutch.

So I have a few questions. Unfortunately times are tough, I need to be on a tight budget.

Being someone who learns easily and is comfortable working on cars, are there any good user write up's to do a clutch replacement on our cars? Have you done it? I understand it's labor intensive, but is it a hard thing to get done?

If I do go that route i'll have to investigate further into exactly the tools/parts needed to get the job finished.

My last question would be if anyone has any recommendations on a budget clutch that is going to hopefully perform better than the stock. I've found a couple, but $300 - 400 seems high and for an incomplete kit. With my understanding the flywheel will not likely need to be replaced.

I do have a few bolt on modifications to my car and that is the only other explanation I have for my clutch going out again so soon.

Silver6Stang06

I haven't replaced a clutch on these cars, but I have on classics. Basically, you will need to drop the driveshaft, disconnect the transmission from the engine, pull the old clutch out, line the new one up, and mount everything back up. You will definitely want to replace your throw-out bearing at the same time. They are fairly cheap and worth it to replace at the same time as the clutch so you don't have to tear everything down again to replace such a cheap part.

This is not something you want to do in your driveway. Now, if you have a friend with a lift like I do, it's not too bad.