D2 steering clutch disks

You might call John Parks at General Gear in Boise, ID. His company sells used and aftermarket parts and I'm supposing he could supply you with the dimensional information you're looking for.

His company has a website: http://www.tractorparts.com/

Daron

My fibres have not been relined yet, but I'd assume the best of them are about 20% worn, so use the thickness as a loose guide.

Outer diameter of fibre band, 9.5"
Inner diameter of fibre band, 6 3/4"
Steel plate thickness, 0.06 thousands of inch
Thickness of plate and it's two fibre bands, .320 thousands of inch
Hope that helps
regards
Mike

Fiber material would be 0.125 inches thick based on Mikes measurement.

Fiber material would be 0.125 inches thick based on Mikes measurement.

I would look up a "stacked height" for the clutch pack and calculate from that. I know there have been quite a few questions about how many of the thinner bimetallic discs to use when converting one, so you should be able to find it.

When you're looking at the dimension of 2 linings and the steel plate they're riveted onto, you're going to pick up a thousandth or two until it is compressed in the stack.

Mike, that helps a lot, still have to figure new thickness. I assume the steel thickness given is the plate the linings are riveted to and not the bare plate? Without a new one to measure the linings minus steel are,
.32 -.06 = .26, .26/2= .13., .13 + 20% = .1338 . I think it more likely that the original thickness would have been a normal fraction such as .1406 (9/64) or even .1562 (5/32).
I don't know where Drujinin got .125

[quote="Arborigine"]Mike, that helps a lot, still have to figure new thickness. I assume the steel thickness given is the plate the linings are riveted to and not the bare plate? Without a new one to measure the linings minus steel are,
.32 -.06 = .26, .26/2= .13., .13 + 20% = .1338 . I think it more likely that the original thickness would have been a normal fraction such as .1406 (9/64) or even .1562 (5/32).
I don't know where Drujinin got .125[/quote]

Correcto Mondo, The steel thickness was for the plate the fibers attatch to, interestingly I'm chatting to Dana at Florin Tractor Parts right now via email about buying new fibers for my RD6 steering clutches, it seems each fiber is around $30 each from Florin, and $50 each from another supplier.

At those prices the newer bi metallic plates from General Gear look pretty attractive even if you do need a couple extra plates. If you check over on the General Gear website they list the specs for steering clutch thickness.
Good luck
Mike

here is the link to the D2 clutch info
http://www.tpaktopc.net/d2strcltch.htm