Entertaining V8V spannering videos

[JonnyCJ]

For those of us that like getting our hands dirty, this chap has done some great stuff on a cheap V8V he picked up. Full clutch change detailed as well. There's a few in the series.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipZork_G10s

[BiggaJ]

I've been watching this bloke (especially on the Vantage he bought). The car came on air-ride and had been pimped out, a real mess, awful wheels etc.

He's all about doing things on the cheap and the clutch was relined. Funny one though, he bought an oil filter for $1 and got a load of comments saying why skimp on this when an Aston labelled filter was around $40 (hardly going to break the bank) so he did a feature on several oil filters are varying price points including the $1 filter thats now fitted to this Vantage. Basically, when torn apart there was no difference between them.

I actually mentioned the clutch relining to Vantage Engineering the other week and they were not in favour of doing it for the Vantage but did say they know of a few places that would do it if you really wanted to save money.

[JonnyCJ]

I personally don't see an issue with clutch re-lining. All you're doing is drilling out the rivets and removing what's left of the old friction material and then re-installing new friction material, in the same way as it's done in the factory.

Clive at CC Charger did this on his clutch and has had many happy miles out of it with no issues.

[BiggaJ]

JonnyCJ said:

I personally don't see an issue with clutch re-lining. All you're doing is drilling out the rivets and removing what's left of the old friction material and then re-installing new friction material, in the same way as it's done in the factory.

Clive at CC Charger did this on his clutch and has had many happy miles out of it with no issues.

He had a twin plate clutch fitted at AHM a few months back, Adi told me he had fitted one for Clive. But like you I dont see an issue with in general. Though I'm not sure he saved a huge amount.

Edited by BiggaJ on Thursday 7th October 11:09

[JonnyCJ]

From memory the re-line was £300 ish and factor in he replaced it himself, that's quite a saving compared to having it done elsewhere.

Depends how comfortable you are on doing it and how many hands you have !

[BiggaJ]

JonnyCJ said:

From memory the re-line was £300 ish and factor in he replaced it himself, that's quite a saving compared to having it done elsewhere.

Depends how comfortable you are on doing it and how many hands you have !

I cant recall what he spent having it done however, most of us aren't in a position to do this work unaided so would most likely have a garage do it, I wonder what the saving in real world terms would be going this route?

[JonnyCJ]

I reckon £2 - £2.5k depending on what clutch you go for. I was tempted when I did my subframe refurb, as I'd already done a good chuck of the work, however, my clutch is fine and I'd have kicked myself to have taken it out and only found minimal wear. It doesn't phase me doing it in future, the only tricky things I see are dropping the transaxle and undoing the manifold nuts. The former might enlist calling on a chum for some help, as 4 hands can generally knock off 80% of the time compared to 2 in those situations.