Has anyone replaced their own clutch?

[bronzemaxell]

Whew.. I'm glad someone else has attempted it!

I'd rather spend a few weekends of my own time and know everything that was done (and done correctly) vs paying someone $800 (or whatever) that really has no vested interest in my car one way or another.
I'm not scared of the work involved, I do all the work on my cars except for bodywork or alignments so clutch replacement is more or less an effort in patience.
I know the factory tends to recommend the most foolproof (and labor intensive) method for these things but 9 times out of 10, someone has found an easier way to cheat the system.

All I need to know is that with the trans slid to the side, did you need to remove the LH only or both LH and RH half-shafts to do it?
Also, it there enough room for me to remove the flywheel for resurfacing?

Thanks again!
I will be doing this over the winter so I'll post pics during the process.
Elm

here is a great link for clutch job
give credit to greggf who did this very detail write up

http://www.toyotanation.com/forum/showt ... p?t=216535


if you can remove the passenger side easily, then it will make re-installation easier, otherwise, driverside axle removal is required, passengerside is optional, just a little bit harder to re-align the tranny, ps axle sametime mating them back to engine.

also there is enough room on V6 to remove flywheel , clutch fork, etc.

[akora12]

If many of you are getting 100,000+ miles on your clutches, then whomever had my car before me really must have sucked at driving stick. There was only one previous owner of my car, but the clutch went out at 80,xxx miles, only a few thousand miles after I bought it.

My uncle has raced cars for years and said 80,000 miles on a clutch was normal to go out. He's into '70s big blocks though.

[Midias]

If many of you are getting 100,000+ miles on your clutches, then whomever had my car before me really must have sucked at driving stick. There was only one previous owner of my car, but the clutch went out at 80,xxx miles, only a few thousand miles after I bought it.

My uncle has raced cars for years and said 80,000 miles on a clutch was normal to go out. He's into '70s big blocks though.

Yup 150,000 and still strong

[Kenz]

It really depends how its been treated.
If the first owner bought the car and learned how to drive stick on it, the clutch is probably not going to last very long. Same thing if it was driven hard or street raced.

All depends on how it was treated. I would expect the V6 clutches don't last as long as the I4's. The extra torque probably burns them out faster.

[Midias]

I have a v6 5 speed my dad owned it before me and I bought it from him during collage. We both are well versed in manual trans operation but we also both love the revs. But I do wonder how much past 150,000 it will make it

[tspinning]

mine went at around 80k (previous owner was not a great driver as i also replaced the power steering unit shortly after the clutch and flywheel)

For the shop in Burlington VT it was $1000.00 for new clutch, and refinish my flywheel total.

[Solorange]

Well everyone, I must have jinx myself by posting in this thread. I posted in the first place because I knew the time was coming soon since it was only slipping a tiny bit in 4th when getting on it hard. Today on the way home from work I defiantly almost killed it. I got on it hard in 2nd and when I shifted it slipped real bad. My cabin reeked of burnt clutch. Then after that the clutch pedal felt really light. Gave it one more little test on the way to the dealership by punching it hard in second and it slipped really bad when shifting to third. So it should be fixed in a day. Im sure I could have probably got a little more life out of it but I dont want to get stranded to and from work since I drive 45min each way out into the country. So mine lasted only 120517 miles. I guess thats pretty good. On the plus side I got my McCulloch HID kit today. Just sucks now I have to pay for a clutch job after I decided to purchase a HID kit.