Super A clutch finger adjustment

Hi guys,
I posted earlier about the graphite type throw-out bearing on my Farmall super A. I wanted to say thanks for the advice I got from Scotty and Jim. I opted to change out the whole clutch assembly (bought from this site) but I've never seen a clutch that had adjustable fingers! My Farmall repair manual says nothing about these adjustments. Each finger (3 of them) has an adjustment bolt and a lock nut to lock them down. Can anyone give me the procedure to make these adjustments? I can't put my engine on until I figure this out. HELP!!
Dave Lampman

The correct adjustments should have been made at the time time the PPA was assembled. It will have been adjusted closer to the correct specs than you will be able to do in the field. If after assembling the clutch to the flywheel if the levers are not even I would return it and get another one.

Agree. Mine came with yellow paint daubed on the nuts on the pre-adjusted fingers, which I assumed was my warning not to muck up the works.

I don't think they were factory adjusted. The lock nuts weren't even locked down and the fingers were uneven by quite a bit. Isn't there a mesurement or something I can work with? It already cost me $17.00 shipping!

You got taken, send it back -- where did you get it?

Whoops, you said this site -- someone messed up. They will take it back -- probably drop shipped from somewhere else. Ask them to have it sent from Hy Capacity.

Dave, there are specs for setting up the clutch, but one wants to be set up well on the bench to get it right. I tend to agree with the others, the clutch should be delivred (new or reman) set to specs.

Just as a heads up --- the Rockford clutches anyway (not sure about the Auburns) have a provision for keeping the pressure plate compressed to the cover for installation and removal. Basically three bolts thru the cover into the plate to hold it in the compressed position. When those bolts are in place with the clutch in the box (or on the bench), the fingers will flop. They need to be removed when installed for the clutch to function.

To help you picture it, on those clutches, when removing, you take one of the bolts holding teh cover on and, instead of setting it to the side to keep track of, you insert it thru the cover and thread into the pressure plate. do that with one of each of the bolts at the three points on the cover. It takes the tension off the pressure plate and makes it much easier to remove the other three bolts holding the clutch in place, as well as with the reinstall.

Look around in the middle of the clutch cover to see if there might be three bolt heads lookin' at you. That might be the issue.

The Rockford clutches I have purchased, 3 so far, including one for a Super A do not have those compression bolts. I think that disappeared when IH started using Rockford, or maybe more recently. Anyway far as I know they do not come that way anymore.

The new one is set just install an it will be ok i have installed many and they are set when you get them. They should all be the same height after you get it mounted to the flywheel.

Well guys, I looked through my Farmall service manual again and found this pressure plate is the one they used in what the manual called a "torque amplifier clutch" which I.H. used in different tractors than my Super A. In that section of of the manual it did show how to set up the adjustments for this pressure plate. So, this site is just selling the pressure plate for the torque amplifier clutch which isn't a problem because the different holes you need to mount it were already there on the flywheel. I think maybe that's the reason the adjustment bolts were left undone. In other words maybe the settings are different on the standard and the torque amplifier clutch. At any rate, the clutch is in and working. Thanks guys, for all the advice but as usual, going back to the service manual and READING ALL THE CLUTCH SECTION is what payed off.
Thanks again,
Dave Lampman

If you got it adjusted, fine. But the torque amplifier clutch you mentioned is not even remotely related to the Super A clutch, there is no way it will even come close to fitting a Super A flywheel. I think what happened in your case is that the clutch was messed with and returned, and the employee who recieved it simply put it back on the shelf as new and did not look at it, then someone sent it to you. The different holes on the flywheel are there because Auburn and Rockford clutches both fit that flywheel.