Clutch Replacement St Albans

Here at DP Motors we only use the best high quality brands for clutch replacements in St Albans, LuK clutches, Valeo clutches, Exedy clutches, McLeod clutches, SPEC Clutches, Valair clutches, ACDelco clutches and many more. We ensure your new car clutch will be the best fit for your vehicle.

Clutch Materials

Different materials are been used for the disc-friction facings, previous using asbestos. New clutches now use a compound organic resin with copper wire facing or a ceramic compund material. Ceramic materials are normally used in heavy applications such as car racing or heavy-duty pulling or hauling, though the tougher the ceramic materials increase flywheel and pressure plate wear and tear.

For “wet” clutches, composite paper materials are often used. Since these “wet” clutches normally use an oil bath or flow-through cooling method. This keeps the disc pack cool and well lubricated. Minimal  wear is seen when using composite paper materials.

Push& Pull Clutches

Friction-disc clutches are generally referred to as push type or pull type clutches. It mainly depends on the position of the pressure plate fulcrum points. For pull-type clutches, pulls the release bearing, pulling on the diaphragm spring and disengaging the vehicle drive, when the clutch pedal in pressed. For push type, the opposite occurs, the release bearing will be pushed towards the clutch. This will disengaging from the vehicle drive. This particular instance, the release bearing, is also known as a thrust bearing.

Clutch Dampers

A damper part of a clutch,  softens or reduces the response time of the clutch engagement/disengagement. Applications in vehicles, this is more likely provided by a mechanism in the clutch disc centres. this also reduces driveline vibration, pre-dampers are used to limit the gears from rattling at idle speeds, by altering the natural frequency of the disc. This weaker spring or springs are pressed solely by radial vibrations of an engine idle. They will be totally compressed and won’t be in use once the main damper springs, will take up drive.

Multiple plate clutches

This kind of car clutch has a few driving individuals interleaved or “stacked” with a few driven individuals. It is utilised as a part of racing cars including Formula 1, IndyCar, World Rally and even most drag car racing. Multiplate car clutches see much use in racing, which requires the most ideal increasing speed, and is infamous for the mishandle the grip is subjected to. Therefore motor bikes, automatic transmissions and in some diesel trains with mechanical transmissions. It is likewise utilised as a part of some electronically controlled all-wheel drive frameworks and additionally in some exchange cases. They can likewise be found in some army vehicles such as, tanks and AFV’s (T-54) and earthmoving gear (front-end loaders, bulldozers), and also parts in specific sorts of restricted slip differentials. The advantage on account of motor sports is that you can accomplish a similar aggregate grating power with a significantly littler general measurement (or on the other hand, a considerably more noteworthy rubbing power for a similar distance across, essential in situations where a vehicle is adjusted with more prominent power, yet the greatest physical size of the grip unit is compelled by the grasp lodging). In motorsports vehicles that keep running at high motor/drivetrain speeds, the littler measurement diminishes rotational latency, making the drivetrain parts quicken all the more quickly, and also lessening the precise speed of the external territories of the grip unit, which could turn out to be profoundly pushed and fall flat at the to a great degree high drivetrain rotational rates accomplished in games, for example, Formula 1 or racing. On account of overwhelming hardware, which regularly manage high torque powers and drivetrain loads, a solitary plate grip of the fundamental quality would be too extensive to effortlessly bundle as a part of the driveline.