The springs do tend to be weak. I replaced my whole clutch at 25,000 because it was slipping but all it needed was springs. I still have my old clutches and plates. I may need them one day when I am short of money.

I have no faith in human perfectability. I think that human exertion will have no appreciable effect upon humanity. Man is now only more active - not more happy - nor more wise, than he was 6000 years ago. Edgar Allan Poe