How To : Install a new dry clutch pressure plate

[yang258]

Is it ok to put the clutch cover on without an aftermarket clutch plate? Just that I have a cover and am waiting 2 weeks for the plate to come....

[golgofett]

This looks easy enough due to the tutorial but can I screw this up?  I am not a mechanic by any means but mechanical enough to put on new levers, fender eliminators, and switch out lights. 

[Buckethead]

Is it ok to put the clutch cover on without an aftermarket clutch plate? Just that I have a cover and am waiting 2 weeks for the plate to come....

It's fine. If you're really self conscious about how it looks you could always pull your stock pressure plate off, spray paint it, and then put it back on.

This looks easy enough due to the tutorial but can I screw this up?  I am not a mechanic by any means but mechanical enough to put on new levers, fender eliminators, and switch out lights. 

It's possible, but you'd kinda have to try. Just keep your hand away from the clutch lever while the plate is off, and make sure to line up the marks. You know, zombies and all that.

[He Man]

its very hard to screw this up. If you do however, its not going to matter because chances are, youd be dead already.

[Goat_Herder]

This looks easy enough due to the tutorial but can I screw this up?

There isn't really anything to worry about.  It's like being under an air raid and worrying about getting hit by a bomb.  If you get hit, you'd be dead so fast that you wouldn't know about it.

Zombies are watching your every move.  They will get you before you can finish saying "is my plate lined to the slit?"

[slowkitty]

Thinking of using the stock pressure plate (like the one below) but powdercoating it to a colour of my choice ....



Can I powdercoat the non-outside facing side too? or I have to leave that bare?

Cheers

[Monsterlover]

I think you can coat it.

I believe that surface clamps against a steel and not a friction plate.

[He Man]

it clamps onto a steel plate, but if you PC it, it will probably rip off anyway.

[CCEMN1]

The notch on the plate is because the teeth on the clutch hub are not evenly spaced in relation to the posts.  The notch just helps you line it up properly.

If you don't line it up properly, the teeth on the pressure plate will not mesh with the teeth on the hub and... uh... zombies will kill you untill you die.

Love the HST avatar! I've got it tattooed on my arm!

[cakeman]

is it me? I cant see this notch in the tut on the gold pressure plate you installed. Is it in exactly the same spot the triangle on the old pressure plate is?

From all these comments about death etc, im a little worried... are you fellas just mucking around or what?

[mojo]

The notch is in about the 10-11 o'clock position.  It's a little tough to see in the pic, but you can see the notch on the post of the hub.

Nobody but Ducati knows the reason for the notch, but I know at least a few people on here didn't line it up and nothing bad happened.

[Monsterlover]

The notch let's you put the plate on right the first time.

It can go on 6 different ways (6 spring posts)

using the notch is a guaranteed fit. I've also had it work one other way as well.

So the plate can go on at least two different ways.

And so were clear, the notch is meant to line up with the triangle on the pressure plate.

[cakeman]

so simply put, if you have put it on the wrong way, it is visible because the teeth from the plate and the clutch teeth wont line up?
That easy?

[Monsterlover]

Yes. It either seats correctly or it doesn't.

[He Man]

It will be a different sign on every different pressure plate. sometimes the compnay uses their logo to mark it, sometimes it will be an arrow thats on the inside of the plate etc.

As ML said, theres an odd number of teeth and an even number of post, so the plate technically only fits 1 way.

on slipper clutches it doesnt matter since there are no teeth on the pressure plate.