Replacing The Clutch in a 1997 Dodge

okay y'all we're at the apple store for buying this the clutch for the dodge they got two different clutches they got a uh a regular and a heavy duty so i was like oh hell yeah i'm gonna give me a heavy duty so i call i go in there and i say look um y'all got two different things y'all got a regular and a heavy duty do y'all have both of them and this is actually the hub here in charlotte and they said absolutely we've got both of them i said okay well um how about pulling them and let me look at them and if there's any at all visible difference in them i'll buy the heavy duty right i mean hell if you got two different products you ought to be able to tell the difference well i pulled them out the clutch disc has got the same numbers on them it's double the price one is three hundred one six hundred um double the price and it's the same clutch well there ain't no problem with my pressure plate there ain't no problem with my flywheel there's no problem with my throw out bearing and there's no problem with my pilot bearing so uh why would i pay double the price for the same clutch disc i was hoping it was going to be a double clutch or a double disc or you know something along those lines and all the research i've been doing everybody says the double disc like uh the uh damn i don't forgot the name there's one name in them i don't forgot it somebody tell me but the double disc they're saying you can't hardly drive it on the street it's more of a race type deal and uh hell i don't want that i want a damn i want something i can drive up down the road i don't want you know break my neck no riding a clutch it's either on or off i mean i've got to have a little give there where you can drive it like backing up in that building you know you got to kind of ride the clutch to get get uh straightened up enough where you can get up in the building so there's a couple things that you got to have to uh to you know make it logic logical to use and if it's just all clutch or no clutch i mean that would work in some aspects but in a lot of aspects it wouldn't work in my application i mean i'm going through a field of hey i've got to kind of ease up to the next spot and sit there with my foot on the clutch and wait for them to load me and then ease up to the next spot if it's like i'm dumping the clutch every time i'm going to be tearing people's hay fields up i'm gonna be doing you know barking tires i'm gonna be spinning in the rain and that's the kind of stuff that i'm not i'm not into i mean i'm not into spinning tires anymore i've done got too old for that and that tear up um i'm more or less wanna when i ease out on that clutch i want that damn plane to dig and let's go and uh everybody's going to say i'm overloading the truck well hell if i am the chevrolet should fall apart it has not so it's not the uh it's not it's not that i'm overloading it's that they've got a problem somewhere along the lines and uh they need to figure it out or i need to figure it out one or the other i guess it's on me at this point but i was gonna have the transmission fixed i cannot have well i can't have the transmission fixed but it's a it's not a good business move or business decision or personal decision or whatever they're basically they want to charge me a thousand dollars to open that transmission up to see what's wrong inside that's just labor to open it plus the parts well i can buy a remanufactured transmission with a five year warranty on which you don't get a warranty when somebody rebuilds one not that way anyway i get a five year warranty on a remand five-speed transmission for the dodge you know just plug and play basically pull mine out and stick that one in and it costs 1700 so why would i gamble on having less than six or seven hundred dollars worth of damage and that 1700 when you get new fluid with you get new uh you get new painted transmission you you just pull it out and stick the new one in you don't have no wait time no nothing i'm gonna run what a broom and uh wait until she goes all the way out and then i'm on a switcher just jerk it back out and uh put a uh put a remand in it and be done with it and have my five year warranty and go on about it they say they and them uh seventeen hundred dollar ones they don't fix the uh and that's free shipping they've fixed the five fifth gear nut that fixed it um i don't know enough about the transmissions that tear them apart and uh i tried an automatic one time and i got it to go again it wouldn't move at all and i put a kit in it put it back together and uh it didn't it lasted about i think it was about five miles i made it but i'm gonna run in here and get me something to eat and uh when you come back on we'll be in jefferson i'll see you here shortly okay here's a new pressure plate it weighs 100 pounds but there it is there's our new clutch disc i don't like that it has plastic on it this says flywheel side that's all plastic that's probably not good but that's what we could buy that's the only thing they had in stock in charlotte this is our pilot bearing and our alliance chef don't know how this works when i took my tripod down basically this is your lineup shaft it goes through your clutch dude it goes through your clutch just like so in the end of your pilot bearing so this piece will go into your pilot bearing in your flywheel that will go through this clutch and it keeps it lined up perfectly straight and then you put your push plate on and bolt it down and then it'll hold the clutch then you pull your line up shaft out and you stick your uh sticky transmission in first off while we're up here where i can actually see something i'm going to change this i think i am anyway once i just throw it there if i can figure out how to change it um it looks like that yep looks like you just slide it back and twist it let's get the new one nope this one's a gift that and that they look the same i think this you just twist it like so you know put it in there like so get some springs lined up just twist it right in there you go obviously it's going to be in the middle but it's in there in there like swimwear so now we're going to crawl up underneath the truck i'm going to put the clutch in i'm going to put the uh i'm going to get this grease off my hands first because you don't want to touch clutch with grease on your hands but i'm gonna get up under there i'm gonna put that clutch in i'm gonna put the line up shaft in it and i'm gonna put this uh pressure plate on there and bolt it all down and then we'll come back and we'll get this bell housing we're going to put it in there we're going to tighten it up and be done with the bell housing and then we're going to slide the in i mean the ginger juice can't say so we'll figure it all out here here's the almighty dodge there's no lights in this building whatsoever so we're using the milwaukee we got a milwaukee impact there and i've got a milwaukee impact on big impact in the trip i'll slide it underneath the truck and when we go to put the transmission in um and we'll be back with you here shortly i lied i still have it they didn't take it like i thought they did so we'll get it set up underneath there too okay y'all well i see a problem that i didn't know we had if you look right there the pilot bushing is gone now we got to figure out a way to get that damn thing out of there without my slide hammer see if you got a slide hammer you can take it up in there and it's got like a hook on it take up in there and hook it and just pop it right out but i don't have my slide hammer here i've got a new pilot bushing that ain't no problem the problem is getting that one out so i've got a couple options one of them is taking the flywheel off and driving it out from the back side because i believe it's installed in the flywheel which you don't want to take them both off and on if you can help it so let me figure out what we're going to do and i'll let y'all know okay y'all i did find the slide ham okay i found the slide hammer but i've got it's the only end i've got so what i'm going to try to do is use this i didn't have a bolt so i took a bolt out of my chevrolet that holds the board on the bed so i'm gonna try to catch the end of that with the end of this nut see if i can pop it out of there i don't know if it's gonna work or not but is the best choice i got at the moment if this don't work we'll have to find something else but i think if i can get it to where it'll grab yeah see it's crap okay i got to uh forgot to get it in there oh damn i don't know if that's gonna work or not but these damn shorts try come on can't see what i'm doing here oh hell we're in business see this other side it's just a nut that you can basically slip stuff through and then screw it back down now i'm pretty sure i can get it should be pretty easy like that because i can hold it up or down or left or right if i can get that screw on you okay now we got that hopefully y'all can see y'all right on me i didn't realize y'all was that close here hopefully y'all can see something there okay we got this keep my fingers out the way man where's that washer with that wash real quick i don't know if that watch will go in there or not but we're going to try it i doubt that washer's gonna go in there nope that washer is not gonna go in there okay i'm gonna try to drive this screwdriver around the side of it it's already broke um the screwdriver is i'm gonna try to drive it in there and see if i can get it out that way if not i'm gonna have to try to figure out how to cut it out of there they're part of it okay bam [Music] i got a phone hit me in the head i've got a damn light here hit me i'm worried about a transmission rolling over on me i got an exhaust in my arm and i got a damn 24 ounce okay let's see what we got here that bushing will go right in there so there's the bushing there's the lineup tool here comes the clutch hopefully y'all can see make sure you put where it says flywheel side to the flywheel oh come on now get that there a line-up shaft see how that holds together we ain't standing there holding it hopefully you don't think this because i ain't quit now two screws three screws four screws but i need a bolt five screws six screws seven screws there's lock nuts eight screws how many things god almighty this thing weighs about 100 pounds that's probably why i let it fall and of course i can't see okay there's this wrong spot not um if you watch these springs will start going in put the hammer to it they'll start going down yep [Music] now this is one screw it looks like i got to find it right there it is right there and i'm going to check them off with this ratchet just to make sure they're good and tight yeah and they tied it off glad i'm checking yeah that would have been a damn disaster son of a run the boat off mother well now he did it he broke the bolt off inside the clutch tune in next time to see if he fixes it i'll bet he does after all he's my brother donny make sure and subscribe give us a thumbs up and don't listen to him cuz