Bolt Kits & Hardware

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Bolt Kits & Hardware South Bend Clutch bolt kits and hardware are the quiet foundation of every reliable clutch installation. The friction material you choose, the clamp curve we engineer into the pressure plate, and the surface we machine into the flywheel only perform as intended when the assembly is cinched together with the right fasteners—correct length, shoulder, thread pitch, tensile class, and flange geometry—installed in the right sequence and torque window. This collection brings together pressure plate bolts, flywheel bolts, dowel pins, ring-gear hardware, pilot and guide dowels, pivot hardware, clutch cover hardware, and select washers and locking solutions matched to the platforms we serve: diesel trucks (Cummins G56/NV4500, Power Stroke/ZF, Duramax manuals), LS/T56 and TR6060/Magnum, domestic passenger and American muscle, European performance (BMW, Audi, Porsche, Mercedes-AMG, VW), Jeep and off-road, and sport compact applications. If your goal is a clutch that holds torque, releases cleanly, and feels the same on day 500 as it did on day five, use SBC hardware that’s been spec’d for the stack height, materials, and clamp strategy of the clutch you’re installing. Fasteners seem simple—until they aren’t. A flywheel bolt that’s 2 mm too long can bottom against the crank before clamping the flywheel; a pressure plate bolt with the wrong flange can dig into a cover, distort the pressure ring, and create hot spotting that customers describe as “chatter.” Mix a coarse-thread bolt into a fine-thread hole and you’ll invite a future service nightmare; reuse stretch-to-yield flywheel hardware and you may get a torque number on the wrench but no real clamp at the interface. South Bend Clutch hardware kits eliminate the guesswork. We package the correct fasteners for your platform and clutch family, chosen for material, hardness, and heat tolerance, with the engagement length and head style that interface cleanly with our flywheels and covers. Instead of impr

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