Reply to "Pressure plate 3 finger long style"

I begin to suspect that unknown to him, Doug has a Pantera that has been converted over to a 10 1/2" clutch/PP by a previous owner. They get pretty grimey pretty quick and it may have looked older than the hills when he worked on it, but 71-74 cars came with 11" from the factory in Modena.

[quote]The original clutch is a 10.5 inch disc with a diaphram clutch cover.

No it was not. I pulled my original clutch/pressure plate and had them rebuilt locally. The PP still had a DeTomaso isis logo on it, and the rebulder took one look at the clutch disc and knew something was different - the flattened marcels. The pressure plate is a three finger Long style.


...The original flywheel part number is a C5ZZ number, I don't remember the suffix.
You can use an 11 inch clutch but you will need to redrill the flywheel....

Wrong again; no you will not have to drill an original Pantera flywheel to install an 11" clutch as they came with an 11".


...You can also use a Long unit if you can figure out how to get more travel out of the slave cylinder.....

The original Pantera Long style clutch has always worked in Panteras with or without long throw slaves.


...The Pantera clutch was always in the Ford parts book as a Pantera part, not a Mustang unit.....

Correct. Pantera owners that bought and installed the Mustang 11" clutch/PP have sometimes inadvertently "clearanced" the inside of the bellhousing as the counter weights on the stock Ford PP are larger than the Pantera unit.

Here is a photo of the rebuilt units installed.

Larry