Self adjusting clutch

Nope,

If you are refering to solo, they hardly ever make it as long as a manual adjust. Some fleets run them just as a reason to avoid going into the shop to maintain adjustment.

Eaton has some bullcrap procedure about resetting the wear tab and pulling the bellhousing back to pull the throwout farther is supposed to make it adjust when its stuck.

By the time I do all that I might as well replace the clutch.

 

My rule thumb is if it has lever/rod or cable linkage I put and manual adjust clutch in, and if hydraulic release it gets a solo clutch. This doesn't help you at the moment. I have had luck adjusting the linkage so have a tighter yoke to release hearing gap and working clutch pedal in and out rapidly with my foot.

 

How come you dont put manual adjust in the hydraulic too?

I would guess its bacause the drivers cant tell when the freeplay is gone. Other reasons?

 

Yep, other reason is Solo actually does seem to work fine and keep adjustment with truck that has hydraulic release. I screwed up when ordered first group of T880's because told them I wanted changed to manual adjust not knowing it had a hydraulic release clutch. Replaced them all earlier than should have and had to physically check on every PM clutch adjustment vs being able to check @ pedal. Replaced them all with Solo's. Also, the Sach's self adjusters did great service for use in the CV Macks we had for awhile. I can tell you no tech or drivers misses them at all!

 

It will only buy time. But use the reset procedure without all the bs. Depress clutch, have someone pry lever to new. Clutch drop it, not running till it stays. Or take air hammer, with hammer bit and rotate, hammering lightly on clutch housing to knock junk loose. Then pry over and release pedal quickly.


I lived the bs nightmare in 99/00 at a IH dealer when those were standard. Some of them were changed before they were sold, some went 150k. Some never moved under its own power. Eaton got the bs procedure from us.

I refuse to reinstall one to this day.