How many miles on your stock clutch...?

[fkovalski]

3G owners with the NV5600... how many miles are you getting on your stock clutch before you notice the pedal 'aint what it should be ...



For those of you who have replace the clutch... at what milage did it happen?



I have 32K on mine and am noticing it having to return to position about 75% travel before engaging. My '01 (NV4500) had 75K+ and still very little noticable wear!!!



Thanks,

-frank.

 

[MMeier]

Sounds more like a hydraulic problem then the clutch itself, IMO! Going through a bunch of trans/ clutch issues myself now, replaced my original with a SBC con fe @129k miles, still looked usable, blew up the 5600 and figured it was as good a time as any to install it!

 

[WaltHess]

I have a 2nd gen (01) with 181K+ on the original clutch. A clutch should go a long way even with towing.

 

[Swamp Donkey]

152,000 km's and still feels very normal. 1st gear starts every time and never "speed" shifted.

 

[JCasper]

I am at 60K right now. I plan on upgrading so that I can turn my Smarty up. To this point though the only slipping has been from trying to finish off a pair of tires.



I do know a guy that has 226K on his stocker and almost all of it is towing.

 

[Kerm]

I got about 145k on my stock clutch.

 

[GaryOwen]

Got 262k miles so far. About half towing miles.

 

[JCasper]

Got 262k miles so far. About half towing miles.

Not to steal the thread, but how many transmission's?

 

[KD7GYJ]

75K miles on the original clutch, but I'm on the 4th slave cylinder. The good ol' plastic slave cylinder just isn't holding up. The clutch pedal feels like the clutch is full of small rocks and sticks, and is hard to push down.



Your clutch might be just fine, take a look at the hydrolic end of this problem.



Good luck finding the problem. Hopefully it isn't your clutch, that's quite a bit more money than the slave cylinder. .



Blair

 

[JHardwick]

I got ~180,000 and the clutch looked good, but I lost a release bearing.



Have ~130,000 on the NAPA clutch assy.

 

[jelag]

04 pulling 22K lb trailer 98% of the time... . 110K miles on the first one... .
Still running the second one we installed at 110 now at 240K..... and now its a flat bed not pulling.....

04. 5 pulling 12K lb trailer now at 75K miles... .

05 pulling 10K lb travel trailer now at 65K miles... .

 

[GaryOwen]

Not to steal the thread, but how many transmission's?

Still on original transmission, replace clutch master/slave assembly once.



Gary

 

[Cattletrkr]

164K original. Juice'd at 45K. Half of those miles are absurdly overloaded, the other half with 7K trailer. It's not perfect anymore, but it's still hangin' on.

 

[Mrudolph]

my stock clutch let go after the Quad box install at 45,000 mi, couldn't hold the power.

 

[fkovalski]

Thanks to one and all for the replies!



The truck is going to the dealer next friday for some other items and I will ask them about this too. Will report back with any results.



-frank.

 

[Wayne M.]

46K and no problems at all. The pedal creaks though.

 

[APersondek]

nearly 70K on my truck. pedal seems to have about 1/4 play in it now..... only 10% towing

 

[DMather]

344K and counting... . Oo.

 

[Wayne M.]

Not to steal the thread, but Doug, How's the rest of the truck doing @ 344K? Do you use it for commercial purpose?

 

[GaryOwen]

Knew I shouldn't have posted my clutch mileage as 262k and still going - now it's 264k and dead.