Reply to "Mangusta clutch"

Although not strictly Mangusta-related, I know a Pantera owner who suffered from an extremely heavy clutch; it turns out that the two needle bearings that the clutch fork rides on (inside the gearbox case) were badly corroded, and that was responsible for the heavy feel. That said, a diaphragm-style clutch (whether made by Centerforce or McLeod) will deliver much less pedal effort for a given amount of clamping force. I recently helped change a way-stiff three-finger clutch for a McLeod diaphraghm clutch in a '71 Pantera and it made a night-and-day difference. McLoed has a Mangusta clutch assembly as a standard catalog item, and it will bolt right up to a standard flywheel. That's definitely what I would do in this case, assuming there's no fundamental problem elsewhere in the system.