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[terry paget]

Vx trade club kit at £103.32 plus VAT April 2010 price sounds best. Is this best choice?

[05omegav6]

Vx trade club kit at £103.32 plus VAT April 2010 price sounds best. Is this best choice?

If you can get it at that price, buy ten, last time I enquired, it was near £500 for all the bits...

Managed to get an old stock kit from Charles Warner in Lincolnshire nearly two years ago for £185 delivered iirc Might have some left...

LUK kit is reasonable, but if you need it, the flywheel is cheaper from VX, albeit special order from Germany

[RobG]

3.2i 24v V6 - Y32SE  Part No: R1520066  Retail: £225.00  Trade: £180.56  Trade Club: £156.02

[terry paget]

The price I quoted was for an exchange kit; perhaps the newer TC price was outright purchase. I found this on e-bay: any comments on it?
http://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/i.html?_odkw=&_osacat=9886&_trksid=p2045573.m570.l1313.TR0.TRC0.Xomega+3..2+clutch+kit&_nkw=omega+3..2+clutch+kit&_sacat=9886&_from=R40

[RobG]

http://www.buypartsby.co.uk/details/VAUXHALL/OMEGA/3.2/0/__/34/624165209/clutch-kit/

[terry paget]

http://www.buypartsby.co.uk/details/VAUXHALL/OMEGA/3.2/0/__/34/624165209/clutch-kit/

Thanks Rob. Excellent price! It is a LUK clutch set. I have read the name before on this site, presumably not having a bad reputation. They mention something about the bearing. I guess I could ask them whether that kit would fit my car.

[05omegav6]

You would be well advised to change the bearing

I have seen first hand what failure does... had one shatter on my first Omega... cracked slave cylinder, broke both the pressure plate and clutch plate. The resulting debris tore chunks out of the flywheel face and scarred the bell housing. Fortunately I had selected reverse to back into a space so was stationary, rather than doing any speed

[terry paget]

You would be well advised to change the bearing

I have seen first hand what failure does... had one shatter on my first Omega... cracked slave cylinder, broke both the pressure plate and clutch plate. The resulting debris tore chunks out of the flywheel face and scarred the bell housing. Fortunately I had selected reverse to back into a space so was stationary, rather than doing any speed

Thanks Al. Are we talking about the clutch thrust bearing, or something else? I assume the clutch thrust bearing comes in the kit.

[05omegav6]

It is the bearing that sits on the slave cylinder

My LUK kit came with one iirc, the Vauxhall 'kit' I bought was individual components, although I left the slave cylinder fitted, as I suspect I had changed the original one needlessly 

Double check and purchase as required

[terry paget]

I see BuyPartsBy offer two clutch kits for the 2003 3.2 Omega, one at £96.50 (RepSet) and one at £179.81 (RepSet Pro) . I imagine they both fit, but the Pro set is higher quality but would last longer. Interesting choice, has anyone any comments?

[05omegav6]

Does the more expensive one include the release bearing and slave cylinder

[terry paget]

Does the more expensive one include the release bearing and slave cylinder

Good question. I presumed all clutch kits were the same; clutch plate, pressure plate and thrust bearing. I did not think any included the slave cylinder. I have never changed a clutch, or bought a clutch kit. I will ring them in the morning and enquire.

[AndyStobbs]

Generally a concentric slave won't come as part of a clutch kit, unless expressly stated. Just paid near to £80 for a csc on the vectra.
Sorry to thread hijack, but does the y32 use the same flywheel and clutch as y26?

[05omegav6]

Think it's basically a 3.0 clutch... would depend on the flywheel size, no

[AndyStobbs]

How do they differ? Only just occurred to me that maybe I should fit a 3.2 flywheel and clutch instead of the 2.6 item.