Saturday, Nov 14, 2015 at 08:26
Once you are rolling the clutch is engaged & that's that. If there was enough torque available to cause slippage under load once in motion there'd be justifivation for a heavier duty alternative.
Most of the wear is form a need to use some slippage to get things rolling. Usually not an issue on level ground.
Pulled boats on ramps & soft banks for many years & had acceptable life out of regular clutches despite the need to let them slip a bit during retrieval.
Only failure I've had was when travelling with a
well ladened Kamperoo behing a 1600cc Lancer.
Our navigations skills got us lost & we ended up at traffic lights on what was close to a 1 in 4 grade. (Yes I just checked that on Google Earth).
We were 3rd vehicle back from the lights with traffic built-up behind & the only way forward was with 4000 revs & clutch slippage for some 30 to 40 metres as the traffic movement was slow.
The slippage for that extended period of time simply burnt it out. A heavy duty one would have made absolutely no difference.
Fortunately installing a replacement in a friends front yard was only 1/2 a days work.
Cheers.
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