Outer Limits 4x4 Board

G'day guy's

Newbie queston for ya.

Have just bought set of Centipedes for the lux. 32 x 9.5's. And went out to Labertouche today for a play. These tyres are good

Anyway question time.

Had to pullup because guy in front was having trouble. (80 with dual lockers and 35 inch centipedes). At that time I was running 3rd low lots of wheel spin, very greasy. To get on the move I reved to about 3500rpm and dumped clutch, ( same gear) trying for wheel spin but got nothing but smoke from the wrong place . Clutch smoking big time.


Edit- sounded a bit stupid, Is this a standard toyota clutch thing. and are SR5 clutches softer than standard? The pedel is very soft. Last hilux was a 2.8 DTS turbo with heavy duty clutch which did not slip. Ever!
Have been sugested a heavy duty replacement $500 will this fix it. Heavy duty clutch on last hilux was about $170.

Info please.

Pic of my lux. Not hardcore I know.



Sorry about size.

toyota factory clutches are borderline at the best of times, and spinning all four wheels is a different game to spinning two at the lights, even in apprantly low traction situations. if your clutch is more than 60,000km old it is probably getting tired - if the clutch is good it should either spin the wheels or stall the engine. is it possible the clutch was already hot from making a lot of gearchanges in the late 20 minutes or so?

Clutch has done 80000kms. Probably would have been fairly warm. I was not treating it nicely.
Think it may be on the way out. Can you recommend a heavy duty replacment?

daiken exedy 'Xtreme' or 'Safari Tuff' are excellent, the safari tuff is a bit hard on the left knee but will never slip. be prepared to spend over $400 for either of them, and there's no warranty on the 'xtreme' (not sure about the safari tuff) as it is a performance/competition part. going on 50,000km with the xtreme in the bundy which I reckon is equivalent to 150,000km of normal mortal driving, I am pretty hard on it

Thanks. Will look into replacement. Would think it hard to warrenty any clutch. You could burn one out very quicklt if you wanted to.

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G 'day i just bought a safari tuff for my 94 lux . i paid only $ 345 for but had to really shop around for as other shops wanted anywhere up to $ 460