Actually very helpful. One thing that was throwing me off was that when I pulled my plates out, it was so sticky in there the last "dished" plate remained and I was counting 1 too few.
I'm going to go with Snidal's lingo, although I understand it much more now with the information listed here.
I have 5 friction plates and 5 intermediate plates. 3 of my 5 intermediate plates are flat, the two outer ones are dished. The outer most component is my pressure plate. How did I do? I think I'm getting it.
So the outer most plate... what Snidal calls the Pressure plate... can get warped too? I'll have to check that one.
I find it hard to check the flatness of the "friction" plates because of their little grab-teeth (Boggy-lingo). They don't sit flush on a piece of glass.
I emailed Hitchcocks regarding Surflex plates and NField regarding Barnett to get some price quotes. Here is Hitchcock's response:
"Dear Sir,
If you choose to use the Surflex plates you will need to convert to a 4 plate clutch. The reason is that the Surflex plates are thicker and 5 Surflex plates cannot be fitted into the AVL clutch basket. This will also influence the number of intermediate plates you may need."
First of all, they called me "Sir," so look out Sir Paul. Second, I don't want to convert to a 4 speed. I saw a kit on Hitchcock's that included a spacer for the primary cover to accommodate the thicker plates. Blltrdr... what did you end up with when going with Surflex... 4 speed or 5 with the spacer?
I'm going to wait to see what Tim at NField says about the Barnetts. He's always been super helpful with parts. This is my first time in ANY clutch so it's a learning process. I'm hoping I can get the 5 friction, 5 intermediate and 6 heavy-duty springs and that they will give me a brand new clutch feel.
Thanks for the info.
Boggy