Captiva

Clutch System Description and Operation

The driving members consist of two flat surfaces machined to a smooth finish. One of these is the rear face of the engine flywheel and the other is the pressure plate. The pressure plate is fitted into a steel cover which is bolted to the flywheel.

The driven member is the clutch disc with a splined hub. The splined hub is free to slide lengthwise along the splines of the input shaft and drives the input shaft through these same splines.

The driving and driven members are held in contact by spring pressure. This pressure is exerted by a diaphragm spring in the pressure plate assembly.

The clutch release system consists of the clutch pedal, the clutch master cylinder, and concentric slave cylinder.

Unlike the former system to release the clutch by the release lever and release fork, the concentric slave cylinder type makes the concentric slave cylinder directly perform the clutch release by the generated pressure through the clutch pedal operation.