Violent Take-Off Shudder

Right now I have a Mcleod M360700 Pressure plate at 2750# and a M260620 double ceramic single sprung disc.


I don’t know if there is a way to drop the pressure on that style of pressure plate but there may be. Since you already have it, if you can get the pressure down that would save some money. Then just replace the disc with the disc perfacar said above and you should be golden.

Public disclosure for truth. Just so you know, I personally detest the diaphragm pressure plate. I don’t think it’s as good a piece as the standard Borg & Beck plate, and the best plate is the Ford Long piece.

Unfortunately for us Chrysler guys, you can’t fit an 11 Long cover on our 130 tooth flywheels. You can now buy a nice 10.5 inch Long cover but it ain’t cheap. You can still find a few guys (Black Magic Clutches for one) who can make up a Borg & Beck/Long cover that will fit your flywheel and you can get the benefit of the Long fingers and still bolt it to a 130T flywheel.

All of that is way more than you need. Less plate load and that disc mentioned above is what you need. I posted the rest of this stuff for educational purposes, so maybe someone coming along later will read this thread and not buy a clutch based on horsepower and not buy a violent, parts breaking clutch. BTDT, as I am a slow learner.

A smooth, controlled application of the clutch will be quicker, faster and drive better than a nasty, pissed off violent clutch.