I'm not 100% convinced that that was the whole cause, though it may have contributed. the pressure plates sandwich the disc between them and there was no slop or play between those and the driveshaft. so even if the fork pulled on the throwout bearing a little off kilter, it would still have to pull back even, unless the throw out bearing sleeve and the pressure plates had room to wobble on the driveshaft. Knowing the idiot that now owns this thing, and seeing how he treats it, (which it seems that is getting worse the longer I know of him) is as much of a cause of the short clutch life, as anything that I found with the machine, as I went thru it the 2nd time around. the 1st time it got new driver and pressure plates along with that new, non reinforced disc
this time it got the better disc and everything but the shaft itself that wasn't replaced the 1st time. If it goes again, this machine can sit in the barn and rot
as I think that I have said about that before, I can go out and jump on any of his machines and run them for hours on end without incident... time after time. He gets on one and within 15 minutes something is broke. sometimes I'm out there mowing on one while he is mowing another part of the yard at the same time. and I see some of the stupid things he does.....
I try to keep up with him and his carnage, because he used to work with me a couple jobs ago, he lets me use a barn that he isn' t using for free, to store my own junk, and has enough property for me to go out and play with my own machines, something that I don't have.
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