Replace the clutch, throwout bearing, and pilot bearing while you're in there... and all of those parts are typically contained in a clutch kit.
The best possible clutch brand I can recommend is also the same clutch the factory installs, Luk, which can easily exceed 200K miles in normal use. I literally smoked my Luk clutch while rock crawling many times and at 161K miles when I changed it out of precaution, I was surprised it still had plenty of life on it and I had no doubt it would have made it another 40K miles as abused as it was in my heavily offroaded Jeep.
You can find Luk clutche kits very inexpensively all over including eBay. I would avoid the heavily marketed and grossly overpriced Centerforce brand. It is no heavier duty and provides no better "performance" than the standard Luk clutch does.
Finally, you may find both the standard and Gold clutch kits... the Gold will last no longer, it is just noisier and is made more for truck applications. The standard Luk kit is very hard to beat, especially considering they are fairly inexpensive to buy.
The smoke you see coming out of my previous TJ was clutch smoke... and I continued driving on that Luk clutch another 40-50K miles after that photo was taken. The trail in the pic is the opening Gatekeeper in Doran Canyon Calif.
The best possible clutch brand I can recommend is also the same clutch the factory installs, Luk, which can easily exceed 200K miles in normal use. I literally smoked my Luk clutch while rock crawling many times and at 161K miles when I changed it out of precaution, I was surprised it still had plenty of life on it and I had no doubt it would have made it another 40K miles as abused as it was in my heavily offroaded Jeep.
You can find Luk clutche kits very inexpensively all over including eBay. I would avoid the heavily marketed and grossly overpriced Centerforce brand. It is no heavier duty and provides no better "performance" than the standard Luk clutch does.
Finally, you may find both the standard and Gold clutch kits... the Gold will last no longer, it is just noisier and is made more for truck applications. The standard Luk kit is very hard to beat, especially considering they are fairly inexpensive to buy.
The smoke you see coming out of my previous TJ was clutch smoke... and I continued driving on that Luk clutch another 40-50K miles after that photo was taken. The trail in the pic is the opening Gatekeeper in Doran Canyon Calif.
