[DeTomaso] what clutches that work with the ZF?

Daniel C Jones daniel.c.jones2 at gmail.com
Fri Sep 3 15:53:21 EDT 2010


What Mustangs are you referring to?  The 1970-1973 351C-powered Mustangs
used a 164 teeth flywheel with 11" Long style pressure plate.  5.0L-powered
Fox body Mustangs (1987-1993) used a 157 teeth flywheel with 10.5" diaphragm
pressure plate.  I'm not aware of any 11" diaphragm OEM Mustang applications.

Dan Jones

On Fri, Sep 3, 2010 at 2:17 PM, Ken Green <kenn_green at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I called McLeod yesterday and asked about using their 11 inch diaphragm Mustang clutch in the Pantera and they responded that you have to use the 11 inch Long style clutch which is Pantera specific.  My guess is that this specific pressure plate does not have the weights that can come out and hit the inside of the bell housing, but I'm not sure I believe that you can't use the Mustang 11 inch diaphragm pressure plate, and on a previous visit to McLeod, another tech there recommended the 11 inch diaphragm pressure plate.  I also know at least one Pantera owner using the McLeod dual disk clutch with no issues.
>
> Based on this, can we put together a list of clutches (disks and pressure plates) that are known to work in a Pantera from actual experience?



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