DMF For Dummies (article complete)
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Well as long as I'm not asking my parents to refinance their house to help me out I am gonna consider it a "small" loan hahaha. but no I was talking about a 4-6 K loan, that would be enough to get a good chunk of the parts and some labor. Obviously not all but getting there.
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Depends how hard they are driven or worked, but for normal driving welding seems fine.
Personally, from what I have been told a good aftermarket clutch like a SOUTH BEND
is much nicer than a DMF anyway.And I do beleive stock replacment DMF are still sold....Mostly to those that don't know any better.
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Yea, thanks for the Hijack, a-holes, This supposed to be educational thread.
They are still sold Jim, but they do not make them for our trucks anymore. They have not for a few years at least. I think they trying to clean up stock, but who would buy a DMF when its 100 dollars more for the flywheel than the more reliable SMF?
Nice job getting South Bend into the thread there Jim.
They are still sold Jim, but they do not make them for our trucks anymore. They have not for a few years at least. I think they trying to clean up stock, but who would buy a DMF when its 100 dollars more for the flywheel than the more reliable SMF?
Nice job getting South Bend into the thread there Jim.
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No if you were Tim you would have finished it 3 days before anyone asked you about it lol. I think that man almost knows TO much hahahaha j/k. And ya why doesn't he visit as much as he used to, I remember he was here all the time and then it got slow here so I was on PSN for a week or two and when I came back I hardly saw him posting. Now he posts up from time to time but not nearly as much as he used to, everything is alright up there right?
on edit: ohh damn there I go hijacking the thread again, sorry I do it without realizing till its two late.
on edit: ohh damn there I go hijacking the thread again, sorry I do it without realizing till its two late.
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I tore the DMF apart tonight finally.
It's pretty interesting honestly.
I think I'll put it up on my web site though, so you'll have to wait till I upload it.
Basically found out, its a lot of parts. LOTS of parts. Its kinda crazy.
In all honesty, its destine to fail.
It's pretty interesting honestly.
I think I'll put it up on my web site though, so you'll have to wait till I upload it.
Basically found out, its a lot of parts. LOTS of parts. Its kinda crazy.
In all honesty, its destine to fail.
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I tore the DMF apart tonight finally.
It's pretty interesting honestly.
I think I'll put it up on my web site though, so you'll have to wait till I upload it.
Basically found out, its a lot of parts. LOTS of parts. Its kinda crazy.
In all honesty, its destine to fail.
It's pretty interesting honestly.
I think I'll put it up on my web site though, so you'll have to wait till I upload it.
Basically found out, its a lot of parts. LOTS of parts. Its kinda crazy.
In all honesty, its destine to fail.
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I know many guys on a budget weld them together and they generally last a long time that way.
Depends how hard they are driven or worked, but for normal driving welding seems fine.
Personally, from what I have been told a good aftermarket clutch like a SOUTH BEND is much nicer than a DMF anyway.
And I do beleive stock replacment DMF are still sold....Mostly to those that don't know any better.
Depends how hard they are driven or worked, but for normal driving welding seems fine.
Personally, from what I have been told a good aftermarket clutch like a SOUTH BEND
is much nicer than a DMF anyway.And I do beleive stock replacment DMF are still sold....Mostly to those that don't know any better.
Don't wanna get started on that subject as you may end up doing something bad to my injectors when it's all over with. hahaha. Jim, slight change in plans BTW, we are going bigger and a little later just an FYI. meant to call you. found a different problem. Sorry William, had to hijack a little for myself. good job on the flywheel. meant to text ya back but forgot. now get those freaking pics up ya doushe bag!!!!!!!!
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Here is a poorer quality picture of the DMF assembly with most of the parts visible. Just to tease you all so you have an idea of the amount of suck this thing has.
Not pictured is one bolt, which i found in my stack of tools, and i didn't tear off the rubber pads that you see laying in the middle of the one thing, yes rubber. There is one on every one of those ends on both sides.
When I post them to the website, I'm going to really give you guys a treat with some high quality stuff, but your gonna have to wait a month till I get it uploaded, unless I get some good High speed at a hotel and have the article finished.
Feel free to ask any questions about the parts shown currently though.
The big center hub, also, thats a bearing. I didn't tear that down, but its bad. It is really stupid design.
Hopefully we can get some good discussion in here as well before I post the article, so I can have less assumptions on the main article, cause its going to be almost all speculation.
Now, if the stupid image would upload and stop crapping out.
damit. its doing this 99% complete then fail crap again. I hate the upload on this site sometimes.
Alright, a reload later. and were good!
Not pictured is one bolt, which i found in my stack of tools, and i didn't tear off the rubber pads that you see laying in the middle of the one thing, yes rubber. There is one on every one of those ends on both sides.
When I post them to the website, I'm going to really give you guys a treat with some high quality stuff, but your gonna have to wait a month till I get it uploaded, unless I get some good High speed at a hotel and have the article finished.
Feel free to ask any questions about the parts shown currently though.
The big center hub, also, thats a bearing. I didn't tear that down, but its bad. It is really stupid design.
Hopefully we can get some good discussion in here as well before I post the article, so I can have less assumptions on the main article, cause its going to be almost all speculation.
Now, if the stupid image would upload and stop crapping out.
damit. its doing this 99% complete then fail crap again. I hate the upload on this site sometimes.
Alright, a reload later. and were good!
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It's not even all the way taken apart, I just wasn't going to drill out more rivets.
The center piece in the picture. The piece in the middle of that is riveted on and matches the other one in the picture.
The center piece in the picture. The piece in the middle of that is riveted on and matches the other one in the picture.