Typical cost of a clutch install?

[TR03Mach1]

I've ordered a Spec Stage 2 clutch kit and billet steel flywheel for my Mach 1. Can anybody give me a ballpark figure of what it will cost to have the parts installed by an independent shop, not the Ford monkeys!

 

[BCB00GT]

I looked into the cost of a clutch install on my 00GT (T-45) and got three prices averaging $280 ($260-$300) using a new flywheel. I think the labor is about a 4 hour charge.

I am doing it myself next Friday with the help of a friend.

 

[TR03Mach1]

I looked into the cost of a clutch install on my 00GT (T-45) and got three prices averaging $280 ($260-$300) using a new flywheel. I think the labor is about a 4 hour charge.

I am doing it myself next Friday with the help of a friend.

Thanks for the info. I'm hoping to keep it under $300. The design of the TR3650 with the integrated bellhousing sucks! To have to drop the tranny and driveshaft just to do a clutch install is ridiculous! The local Ford dealers want in the neighborhood of $800 to do it! I'm like holy crap, I already spent over $500 on the good parts and now you want to rape me on the install, no thanks!

 

[V_Eight]

Mine ran $250 at MPH. Took 3 hours, 30 mins of which we were waiting on the resurfaced flywheel to arrive.

 

[V_Eight]

Thanks for the info. I'm hoping to keep it under $300. The design of the TR3650 with the integrated bellhousing sucks! To have to drop the tranny and driveshaft just to do a clutch install is ridiculous!

T45 is like that too.

 

[TR03Mach1]

T45 is like that too.

Thought maybe it was, but I wasn't real sure. If I could get it done for $250 in half a day, I'd be doing the Snoopy dance!

 

[stangboy999]

I just got qouted $650, labor only not including parts..

 

[damacman]

A clutch isn't a very complex job - especially if you don't have long tube headers. Why not do it yourself? Just don't forget to have the flywheel re-surfaced. Would also be a good time to upgrade the stock clutch cable and quadrant.

 

[stangtrooper97]

Jim, if you find a place let me know. My throw-out bearing is making alot of noise and I figured I should change the clutch while I'm in there. They are going to drop the tranny anyway.

 

[BlackenedSVT]

Anyone have a write-up on a clutch install?

 

[V_Eight]

Jim, if you find a place let me know. My throw-out bearing is making alot of noise and I figured I should change the clutch while I'm in there. They are going to drop the tranny anyway.

Exactly what I did. Just the TOB was making noise, so it all got swapped. 60,000 miles and the stock clutch was still very firm.

 

[TR03Mach1]

Jim, if you find a place let me know. My throw-out bearing is making alot of noise and I figured I should change the clutch while I'm in there. They are going to drop the tranny anyway.

Will do Pete! Hope to get it in sometime during the 4th of July week. While I appreciate the do-it-yourself responses, ain't gonna happen. I lack the necessary tool inventory and the inclination to drop the transmission (how can anybody say that's not a major undertaking?) of my daily driver onto the floor of my garage! I'm just trying to get a rough idea of what it costs to have an independent shop install the clutch. To the guy who got Ford to do it for $150, you're my hero! I'd love to know how you got them to do it for that price!

 

[AdRock]

The design of the TR3650 with the integrated bellhousing sucks! To have to drop the tranny and driveshaft just to do a clutch install is ridiculous!

That's an odd post.



On every car I've ever worked on you have to unhook the DS and pull the tranny to do the clutch. You can't pull the tranny back with the DS still attached and you can't get to the clutch without pulling the tranny back.

 

[Marks5.0!]

That's an odd post.



On every car I've ever worked on you have to unhook the DS and pull the tranny to do the clutch. You can pull the tranny back with the DS still attached and you can't get to the clutch without pulling the tranny back.

 

[TR03Mach1]

That's an odd post.



On every car I've ever worked on you have to unhook the DS and pull the tranny to do the clutch. You can't pull the tranny back with the DS still attached and you can't get to the clutch without pulling the tranny back.

Could be that's because the last clutch I installed was in a 1973 Plymouth 340 Duster, and all I had to do was get the car on a lift, unbolt the bottom half of the bellhousing, and remove the clutch fork, pressure plate, and clutch disc off the input shaft without ever touching a bolt on the transmission! Took 3 people with hand tools about an hour start to finish.

 

[AdRock]

Could be that's because the last clutch I installed was in a 1973 Plymouth 340 Duster, and all I had to do was get the car on a lift, unbolt the bottom half of the bellhousing, and remove the clutch fork, pressure plate, and clutch disc off the input shaft without ever touching a bolt on the transmission! Took 3 people with hand tools about an hour start to finish.

Ahhhh. I see.