Clutch for Volvo

95% of our fleet uses the solo clutch. They are nice. No need for periodic adjustment. As for what they said, I do know that on the eaton trans/volvo setup with the slave cylinder mounted to the bottom of the clutch cover it is almost impossible to adjust the old style clutch with the 5/8" hex. Everything is in the way and it is a two person job. That is just another reason we went with solo clutches.

 

Its just an ad our whole fleet uses manual adjust clutches and there is nothing better in my opinion you can tell when u need to adjust on volvo because the pedal is going to touch the floor and the clutch pedal release will be to far up eaton we only use eaton clutches theyre the best but as far as a solo disc its bs there is no difference we prefer the manual adjust because a lot of the self adjust clutchs the trucls came with the adjustment was getting stuck and not adjust properly and there was nothing we could do about it besides replace the clutch with a manual adjust its never going to get stuck u just have to be able to know youre truck and figure out when it needs to be asjusted

 

in Europe they use to install organic clutch (single disk), runs about 300-500K. But if no clutch servo really hard to depress pedal.
I used easy pedal, may be I'm wrong but solo is harder to depress

 

Adjusters on Solo clutches seize and only thing to do is to replace them. On the other hand my lasted 750K. So how long are you planning on keeping your truck?

 

honestly the amount of tranny work we do at my dealer we sell more easy pedal clutchs then solo, and our regular customers are very happy with them.

 

I am a firm believer in manual adjusting clutches. However there are certain chassis that are better to use solo. The vn models 2005 area have the hyd fork mounted under the bell housing and beside is a little inspection hole. This hole is to small to make manual adjusting the clutch very difficult. In this case a solo is ideal if it works. I still do not have a strong trust with solo. The newer Volvos have moved the fork assy over more and have gone back to the normal size inspection hole. In this model I would install a manual adjusting clutch.

 

I'M Getting the clutch replaced in my recently aquaired 2001 volvo the NEXTRAN DEALERSHIP in ATLANTA is billing me $3,190.65 I've found the part (the clutch) is only around $800 what's your opinion on the cost of the repair are they flat out robbing me?? I'm a new owner op which means I'm broke any opinion or input would be appreciated!!

 

Theyre robbing u flat put in my opinion i work at a shop and were pretty pricey to do a clutch with inputshaft cross shaft new oil and all and it rarely goes over 2500

 

U figure 1000 in parts and 10 hours of labor standart charge at 120 an hour lets say and its still 2200