so im like 30 miles till I hit 500 miles on my new clutch and flywheel, when I hit 500 is it ok to actually get on it? ive been waiting for this day to finnally test the new set up out, but im afraid to just get on it and glaze the surface on the clutch and have crazy slip. any comments?

 

"going easy" on the clutch is harder on the glaze then just dropping it. If you hold your foot on the clutch and let it slip when you're accellerating it will glaze alot quicker then if you just accell and drop. Just drive normally, and don't have to replace your clutch early.

 

the miles/distance that you break in the clutch really depends on the driving situation... is it city driving; where there is a lot of stop and go, ot highway driving; where you are on the 5th gear for the whole drive

one point of clutch break-in is to make sure that you'll get even wear on the clutch disc by making sure that all points/areas of it's surface somes in contact with the flywheel a few times at the same or even magnitude/level

so if that 500 miles that you have done were city driving or you've used the clutch a lot, then it should be ok

 

^^ Yep.

 

another thing about a 500mile break in period... You've driven it 500 miles now. Noone's going to return a 500 mile old clutch if there's not something *seriously* wrong with it.

My feelings on break-in periods is that it helps give the manufacturer less responsibility. If you had a "pre-broken-in" clutch/flywheel/PP installed and you didn't like it, you'd bring it back to the dealership the next day. 500 miles later it's a bit different, you've already become used to it.



the way it's set up, if you bring it back the next day, they tell you to come back in 500 miles.