Clutch Alignment Tool

[DougFromBaltimore]

Can someone suggest the type and size clutch alignment tool to purchase? I just bought the new Friese Clutch Kit, and will need to use the tool. My local auto parts stores have many types and sizes. Just not sure which to buy. Thanks, Doug

 

[dougklink]

Take the disk and pilot bearing in and they should be able to get you the correct tool.

 

[rayhand]

What I did was to remove the bell housing, bolt the clutch & pressure plate loosely on the fly wheel, slide the transmission into the engine, tighten down the pressure plate bolts, remove the transmission, reinstall the bell housing.

 

[Ken Chambers]

It's a standard 24 spline clutch alignment tool for air cooled VWs, Dasher, Thing, Fox, Porsche 256, 911 and others

Mine is a PLEWS 73-351 but I can no longer find a reference to that brand. EMPI 5302 is an identical tool.

 

[DougFromBaltimore]

Thanks! I found it on Amazon for $7.16.

 

[AL67]

the EMPI 5302 does not fit pilot bearing

 

[StephenChu]

Can someone suggest the type and size clutch alignment tool to purchase? I just bought the new Friese Clutch Kit, and will need to use the tool. My local auto parts stores have many types and sizes. Just not sure which to buy. Thanks, Doug

My mechanic in 1968 used a ground down VW pilot tool.

 

[strandweiss62]

I made a temporary tool from a bolt and a ratchet socket, glued together with hot glue.

 

[StephenChu]

I still like what my mechanic did, better, in 1968. He used a ground down VW pilot tool. Didn't have to rely on any glue.

 

[LSolheim]

Gordon Imports sells one: # 2-14-01at

 

[StephenChu]

Three cheers for Hugh Gordon! I met him at Ranchero Motors in 1978. Hugh had just had his Amphicar overhauled in Mexico. Before Gordon Imports, I used to import Amphicar Parts from Bert Story Glas concessionnaire in Rhenoy, Holland.

 

[AL67]

i like the strandweis way bolt and socket but years ago i had a universal clutch allignment tool with different pilots and a tappered piece and worked really good. will just grind down the 7.00 one or get gordons and what ever works