Pajero Owners Club of South Africa

With 220000km on the clock, I need to replace the clutch. I am going to do it myself. Are there any do's or dont's, or things I must look out for, or tips, other than the normal?

Willem

have you considered the 4m40 clutch and flywheel combo? It is a direct bolton at half the price.

Ifyou do a search here, there is much to be read up on it.

Thanks, will read up.

Willem

Replace rear crank shaft seal. Be careful with sensors as they start to get brittle with age. Carefully mark them to correctly connect later. Handle the vacuum pump with care if you disconnect the pipe from it. Normally the connector breaks off if handle roughly due to age. handle rear prop carefully and don't drop it. There is also a trick to release the release bearing from the pressure plate or else you will not get the box out. You need to un latch this with a long screw driver from the other Side where the fork is situated. Only then will the box come out further. I have replaced mine a few months back and have posted on the forum

I hope this helps

Hi Guys,

I'm new to Pajero, just bought a 2001 3.2 DiD SWB and need to replace the clutch (also 230000 kms). I need to know the best place to get a clutch kit in Cape Town. The clutch is pretty messed up so its urgent. As well as a reasonable price i should pay for it?

Regards

LUK is the usual supplier for mitsu clutch kits. Phone your local spares shops and ask if they have LUK.

Have the flywheel checked out first. Those DMF's are semi prone to failure. If it is shot then consider replacing it with the flywheel and clutch assembly from a 2.8 4m40. May even be cheaper.

Hi

Luk/ Schaeffler does not make a clutch kit for the 3.2. This is only available from the agents. You can get for the other models, but not 3.2. When I priced this late last year you were looking at about R16000 for the complete unit, flywhell, clutchplate and pressure plate.

As Marius said, maybe the 2.8 replacement will be much cheaper

Heya

If you're considering trying to replace your clutch with that from a 2.8, please read the tail end of this thread - https://www.pajeroclub.co.za/forum/view ... pro#p13588.

I've been there and considered that, but it just wasn't possible. While it is true that the 2.8 flywheel is a bolt on replacement for the 3.2 (also requiring a different adapter plate), it isn't necessarily true that that this is a drop-in replacement on a Gen3 setup. The original dual mass flywheel is substantially thicker than the 2.8 flywheel and this causes problems with the thrust bearing arrangement which now has a bit too short a movement for the Gen3's bell housing which is longer than the Gen2. There's may be a fix there, but I couldn't convince a garage attempt this install with any kind of guarantee that it will work.

The answer for me was to have a solid flywheel of the same dimensions as the original dual mass machined up. That wasn't cheap either, the machined flywheel cost R8k, but the total job cost was in the region of R14k, a lot better than the R22k the dealers were quoting (a new dualmass was R12k odd from the dealers). Plus, next time I do this, it will just be the cost of the clutch seeing as the solid flywheel can be machined.

I know 4ePajero fitted a 2.8 flywheel to a 3.2, but that was with a Gen2 gearbox as far as I understand. The Gen2 gearbox and bell-housing was designed to accommodate the skinner 2.8 flywheel. I also sure that Marius remains skeptical of this, but hopefully oneday he'll replace his clutch and we'll get hands-on feedback on how a 2.8 flywheel can be made to fit in a 3.2. But if like me you're relying on a garage to do this work, nobody seems wiling to guarantee this works and any experimentation would be for your cost if it doesn't. The only feasible non-dualmass option for me was the machined solid flywheel which is then mated with the standard 3.2 clutch.

So if you're in Cape Town and this sounds like a solution for you, you can always try give Mitspro a call and order a solid flywheel from them and have it fitted at your trusted clutch shop. That being said, Mitspro did send mine back to their supplier for further balancing though, perhaps they can advise you of an equivalent shop in CT.

Good luck. Very happy with my new solid flywheel arrangement.

-Thomas

Apologies, I neglected to properly read the bit where you said you were intending to do the work yourself. Brave man, those look like some very heavy parts!

I've never heard of a dual-mass flywheel being okay after high mileage. They'll also non-machinable, so Mitsubishi always change the flywheel with the clutch. I replaced mine at 225,000 kim about and the clutch was still fine, the dual-mass flywheel was finished. I had a terrible shudder on the clutch and it turned out to be the flywheel, there was a whole bunch of undamped movement on it.

If you do it yourself and decide to give the 2.8 bits a go, please post some feedback and pics

-Thomas