Clutch Basket

[Tador]

I have ordered this basket, from my experience in engineering I could probably do some testing to determine wear characteristics, however, I'm looking at it from a mechanic's perspective; everyone replaces the fibers / disks first, I find it unlikely that the fiber ears will fail before the clutch surface itself.  Also, the basket is the most expensive item, I would prefer it to outlive the disks by a large factor. I could do some hardness testing on the fiber ears and compare it to the the plates on the basket. I'll let you guys know if i do.

[Pumashine]

I have ordered this basket,

Which one? I put a Hinson on when my first basket became severely grooved and not operating smoothly anymore. After 5 years the Hinson looks identical to the stock one I had replaced. Grooves just as deep as the stock one. So I don't think they are any harder than stock. The new one with the stainless steel liners look like the basket will never become grooved again. I see this as a permanent fix. You should be able to wear out several sets of friction disks with the stainless inserts on these baskets. Stainless is 6X as hard as aluminum and should never wear out in this application. In other words the stainless will not wear like aluminum on aluminum. If a basket without stainless liners lasted 5 years I would expect the ones with stainless steel liners to last well over 30 years

[rablack21]

I have ordered this basket, from my experience in engineering I could probably do some testing to determine wear characteristics, however, I'm looking at it from a mechanic's perspective; everyone replaces the fibers / disks first, I find it unlikely that the fiber ears will fail before the clutch surface itself.  Also, the basket is the most expensive item, I would prefer it to outlive the disks by a large factor. I could do some hardness testing on the fiber ears and compare it to the the plates on the basket. I'll let you guys know if i do.

Which one? I put a Hinson on when my first basket became severely grooved and not operating smoothly anymore. After 5 years the Hinson looks identical to the stock one I had replaced. Grooves just as deep as the stock one. So I don't think they are any harder than stock. The new one with the stainless steel liners look like the basket will never become grooved again. I see this as a permanent fix. You should be able to wear out several sets of friction disks with the stainless inserts on these baskets. Stainless is 6X as hard as aluminum and should never wear out in this application. In other words the stainless will not wear like aluminum on aluminum. If a basket without stainless liners lasted 5 years I would expect the ones with stainless steel liners to last well over 30 years

I think you guys are basically saying the same things. And I agree as well. They wear characteristics of the ss will be far superior to the aluminum. And like Tador said, I would rather change a bunch of clutch discs before changing one clutch basket.

[Tador]

I think you guys are basically saying the same things. And I agree as well. They wear characteristics of the ss will be far superior to the aluminum. And like Tador said, I would rather change a bunch of clutch discs before changing one clutch basket.

Yeah, everyone is on the same page but speaking a different language haha.  P
umashine, I bought the Barnett with the liners.