"Brian Silvestro" (BrianSilvestro) 10/03/2015 at 12:18 • Filed to: 944life

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I took a bunch of pictures for that clutch !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! that didn’t get used.

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Urambo Tauro > Brian Silvestro 10/03/2015 at 12:26

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Bad link.

Do you have a better shot of the “limp home tabs”? I’m not familiar with these rubber clutches.

Urambo Tauro > Urambo Tauro 10/03/2015 at 13:11

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Link’s working now. I still can’t make heads or tails of how the limp feature works...

Cool pics, though!

Berang > Urambo Tauro 10/03/2015 at 13:50

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Instead of rubber to metal contact there is metal to metal contact. “limp home tabs” is just a joke name for when this happens.

edit: here’s a photo I found of the back of the clutch:

When the rubber goes bad there’s metal to metal contact between those tabs around the center.

Urambo Tauro > Berang 10/03/2015 at 14:45

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Huh.

Okay, comparing that to the posted GIF, I’m guessing that those tabs just “float” until the rubber twists itself apart, allowing them to make contact. I can see how that would make the clutch engagement feel absolutely lousy.

It’s neat that they had that feature, but I still don’t like the whole rubber design. Springs FTW.