An acquaintence will be replacing the clutch in his '67 A100 pickup soon. Not something I've done before. Any tips, tricks, or words of advise I can pass along?

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1964 Valiant V200, 225/Pushbutton 904
BBD, CAI, HEI, LBP, AC, AM/FM/USB, EIEIO

I have become a shade tree expert lately from doing it the hard way.

Make sure you have the dowel/ alignment tool- the one that simulates the input shaft splines and nose so when you bolt the pressure plate up it is all lined up to slide in.

Lift the truck high enough to slide the trans out on top of a jack. I can bench press an 833 pretty easily, but at arms length it is a challenge. If you got a trans jack (the plate with side rails and safety chain) it makes it easier if you can use the kind with the angle adjustment that screws in to find the right angle to slide it home with a minimum of cursing and straining.

Look for hard spots etc. on the flywheel while you got it exposed. Don't want to do the job twice!

This is a mild pain in the butt so any cheap parts you can have on hand in case you need to replace them are a good idea- pilot, throwout (should replace throwout anyway for insurance) etc. Depends whats cheap to you- sometimes I wanna have everything new flywheel etc. Sometimes I wanna be cheap and just swap the minimum depending on cash.

Have a box of rubber or nitrile (way better) exam gloves so you can easily change them for instant clean hands to handle certain parts while you work.

Good luck!

radar

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madam im adam

This makes everything sooo much easier...I use an input shaft from a dead A-833OD...I would suggest if you ever find a mopar in a wrecking yard with a 3 spd, you might take the time to pull the bearing retainer and pull the input shaft as one of these tools...it's worth the money...

-D.Idiot

these are generally really easy to acquire from a local auto parts place... although with most of that schtuff made in Chiner now-a-days, they usually take a little bit of sanding the splines to make them smooth enough to actually use. I would *never* ruin a good/rebuildable tranny just to pull the input shaft for this tho.
if the car was 'dead' due to the tranny being FUBAR, then that'd be alright I guess.