[Jerry Bransford]

Go with the standard Luk kit from Dial-A-Clutch - Your LuK Clutch Kit Specialist which can easily last >200K miles. Avoid the overpriced Centerforce clutch which is 2X as costly and provides zero benefit over the basic Luk clutch. From having smoked my Luk clutch while offroading a number of times, I was shocked at how much clutch material was left at 161K miles when I decided to change it out of caution. As hard as I used it with lots of abuse, there was enough clutch material left for it to have probably made it over 200K miles.

The Luk clutch kit is something like $160 or so and includes everything you'll need... clutch disk, pressure plate, throwout bearing, pilot bearing, and pilot shaft.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

$210 from Dialaclutch? That's odd, $155 is what Dialaclutch charges on their website for the 05-065 TJ clutch kit. If you priced the Luk Gold kit which is more $$$, that's not the recommended Luk model clutch.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

Purchased the LuK clutch from ebay for 103.27 shipped. Id call that a win. :dance:

That's an exceptional price if that was for the kit. Did that $103 clutch also come with the pressure plate, throwout bearing, pilot bearing, and pilot shaft?

 

[Jerry Bransford]

Wow that's the place then! That's a great price, good find!

 

[Jerry Bransford]

It's a wonder Jeep dealerships like that stay in business. I guess Henderson depends on having enough stupid people around to pay their prices. Pretty surprising too that Benchmark said your TJ was too old for them to work on. They must be very well off to turn business away.

 

[Jerry Bransford]

Thanks to all of the good advice in this thread, I'll be going with a standard Luk kit.
is there a difference between the Dialaclutch kit Jeep CJ5, CJ6, CJ7,WRANGLER Clutch Kit for for $165
and the $90 partsgeek https://www.partsgeek.com/9g3n4lx-j...Geek+ShopZilla&fp=pp&utm_term=Jeep+Clutch+Kit kits?
That seems to be a significant price difference.

@Vatreefarmer Go with this $89 Luk clutch kit at https://www.amazon.com/LuK-05-065-C...=1-4&keywords=luk+clutch+kit+jeep+wrangler+tj which is the right model for your TJ.