* I bought a "Exedy (Daikin) clutch kit" from eBay. I was thinking I could get another 120,000 miles out of this clutch as the original clutch lasted that much.
The clutch was working fine until I heard something when I pressed the clutch pedal. After that the gear would not go in anymore. I took out the transmission and see what happened.
I found that on the clutch disk where you suppose to find springs, this clutch disk had rubber like parts that the rubber mallet is made of. The clutch failed just over 40,000 miles! When I was installing this fake clutch, I thought the springs were inside the rubber. I was wrong.
This disk was not Daikin ( Excedy ) made but cheaply made fake junk clutch made in China.
I can not sell cameras or lenses from eBay now as I can not drive to go to the post office.
Please be careful what you buy from eBay. They sell fake items. If you do not find springs on the clutch disk ( they look black piece where springs sit) The clutch will fail anytime!
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http://tinyurl.com/hva2lcq This is busted. The box says "Exedy" with a picture of the clutch with springs showing! They put a label over the parts number and the box is written in Chinese. The Chinese characters written on the box reads from right to left as in Chinese. Japanese is written from left to right. The words written there reads from right to left.
I bought the clutch kit this time from Rockauto ( some parts are O.K.from this place.) The brand was LUK and the clutch disk has the springs. My 26 years old car is once again running. Off I go to the post office and groceries.
Update: After replacing the clutch disk and pressure plate using LUK brand, the clutch is still working well after one year. My old fake junk clutch disk had problem shifting in gears during the winter time. I was thinking maybe the transmission was going bad. It was the junk clutch that was causing all these problems.
Update
2015 January. LUK clutch is still running fine. My car is a 1987 Honda product. Old cars were made to last :)
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2017 January. LUK clutch is still running fine. My car will be 30 years old in February.
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2023 January. LUK clutch is still running fine. I can not drive my car because the radiator is leaking and I can not find the replacement radiator anywhere.