Clutch: Description and Operation

The clutch is a single dry-plate clutch of the so called fan type.
Power is transmitted from the engine's flywheel to the gearbox via a plate and a plate shaft, in which the plate shaft is integrated with the input shaft in the gearbox. The power is transmitted by the pressure plate, which is screwed into the flywheel, pressing the plate's friction coating against the flywheel.

The plate's spring-dampened hub is connected to the plate shaft by a splines joint. When the releasing bearing presses on the fan's "fingers", these operate as levers and release the pressure plate's nipping power from the plate/flywheel. In this way the engine is released from the gearbox.





Clutch operation is hydraulic and entirely self adjusting. It consists of a system with a master cylinder, which is linked to the clutch pedal, and a slave cylinder in the gearbox, which transmits the power to the de-clutching bearing.