Hello again, bumping this thread. Got my new (as advertised) clutch, replacement was pretty straight forward, although kind of...well, there's a lot of stuff to take off. Not bad though, but it's been frikkin hot here, and humid. Anyway, I found an original warner cluch on e***. Guy bought it to replace his, but found another issue and did not use it. So he put it up for sale (kinda wondering why he didn't return it?) for half what cc wants for them. First clue. The part was very clean, but not in original packaging. It also had the warner sticker on it. I got some time to mow today, my yard was looking pretty crappy. Damn thing lasted about 40 mins. Sounds worse than the one I took off, and it was bad, I took it apart(the old one) and the bearing on the pulley barely moves, and you can see on the disc where it had gotten hot around the bearing. (question: these have friction plates like a normal clutch, right? none showing on my old one)
So, anyway, I have to pull this one off see what the hell's going on. Is there anything I need to know about replacing these things? I'm wondering if I did something wrong. The old one came off with little problem, some wd and a puller, popped right off. New one slid right on, devised a way to keep the motor from turning and torqued to 55 lbs. Nothing seemed wrong at all. If anyone could share a service manual page on replacing these I'd be grateful. It's a 2004 LT 2180. Looks like I'm going to spend about 400 anyway fixing this if I can't get the seller to take the this one back.
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