66and06stangs

I know what I'm about to ask is somewhat rhetorical... I know there isn't some magical number, because it depends on how you drive it, or many other factors. What I'm looking for is possibly 2 things:

First, my car has about 47K miles. While I have absolutely no problems with the clutch, I was wondering at about what mileage others have had to put a clutch in their cars. Just curious as to how long the average stock clutch lasts with "normal" driving. I don't race it, although I did have some fun when I put the tuner on it initially, lol. Mostly just highway/city driving though.

Secondly, I looked for a sticky on doing a clutch replacement on an 06 V6. I have the stock 5 speed. I have done clutches before but it has been a while, wanted to run thru the whole process to see what tools, etc or all the things I am not thinking of ahead of time. I have not done a youtube search yet either, apologies if that is where a good vid resides.

tradosaurus

I bought my 2008 v6 about 4 months ago with 70,000 miles on it. I am needing to replace the clutch with 72,800 on the odometer.

JJHoover

I bought my 2006 new and replaced the clutch at 180k miles, I probably could have pushed it another 10k miles

66and06stangs

Thanks Gents. For a moment I thought I had made some faux paus by asking this. I was guessing clutches might be a bad subject....lol

jimkaray

Assuming you've had it since new and this isn't your first stick it should last a long time. It is important to change the fluid regularly. Use a good synthetic ATF no more than every 40k intervals and you should be good. I would also change the hydraulic fluid as well as these are two areas that can cause hard shifting and wear.
Depending on your time, skills and tools you may or may not want to do it. If you've done a trans swap or clutch job before then expect a similar process. Biggest issue is you can't separate the trans from the bell housing so you can't avoid dropping the exhaust.
You'll need a good selection of metric tools and a torque wrench but nothing too exotic. It can be tricky to bleed the clutch properly since there is no bleeder screw. There you should use a vacuum pump to draw the air out but don't necessarily have to use one.
Some swap highlights: Jack up as high as possible and secure with stands; Drain trans; Drop the drive shaft; Remove front HEGO sensors; Disconnect the exhaust from the headers/manifolds/tailpipe(s); Remove trans cross member; Disconnect shifter linkage; Remove bell housing bolts from engine; Disconnect hydraulic line from clutch master; Disconnect trans sensor harness's; Remove trans; Remove Pressure Plate & clutch plate; Remove flywheel for resurfacing or replacement; Remove Pilot bearing; Remove Throw out bearing if replacing.

66and06stangs

Jim, thank you! Wow, remove the drive shaft too. I can certainly see why this is something that most people just pay for. Yes, i've had many stick cars, and I have been really easy on this one.
I'll look to changing the fluids, I'll have to research those but can certainly handle that. That is a really good explanation of a clutch change, I'm teetering whether I should try it or not. My 66 is coming together and I might need something to project with....

Boneman

Interestingly enough... it wasn't so much that my clutch failed at 136K miles... as it was the throw out bearing. And no sense in replacing that without replacing the clutch too.

As it were... I was kinda glad that I finally had it changed... as I had the "Helicopter" issue with mine and it made me a bit batty at times.

Oh... just in case you're not familiar with the "Helicopter" deal:

http://www.stangpit.com/wp-content/i...b/08-08-05.pdf