Greyout

OK, I am installing a new clutch in my S2000. Going well so far. This is the second clutch I have ever done, the first being on my prelude.

I thought I knew how the release bearing released the clutch... until I saw my release bearing.



So the pressure plate springs don't actually touch the release bearing? When the bearing is pressed into the pressure plate by the clutch release fork, what exactly happens? Videos I have watch make it seem like the bearing should be pressing down on the pressure plate springs, i.e. the triangular radial thingies.

My assembled clutch looks like the above picture, I just don't understand HOW it releases.

Edit: It LOOKS like the pressure plate springs fit perfectly into the outer lip of the release bearing, but they don't. The diameter of the release bearing is such that the pressure plate could just be lifted off it. (Thats me thinking out loud. I just don't get it)

Edit edit: This video explains a clutch, and this is how I thought they worked (and how prelude worked IIRC.) But its not how the S2000 clutch works.

Greyout

Well I sorta answered my own stupid question.

In my prelude, the clutch fork pushed the release bearing toward the engine. In the S2000, it pulls it away from the engine.

That still doesn't sit right in my head, how the leverage of the pressure plate springs is released when they are pulled outward...

Aurex

The pressure plate just works in reverse. The clutch still operates the same.

On most vehicles, you push against the fingers on the PP. This one pulls on the fingers, exactly as you observed and described. Caught me off guard when I did a lightweight flywheel and clutch replacement too.

Greyout

Thanks for confirming! I felt uncomfortable putting something back together that I didn't understand!