National 614093 Clutch Release Bearing for Jeep Wrangler

Good quality with cast-iron housing. Bearing is very smooth. No more throw out bearing squealing in my jeep!

For a replacement it has a higher build quality than the OE bearing from the factory. A friend of mine replaced his around the same time and bought a slightly more expensive one that was actually of worse build quality; the main body of the bearing was made of plastic and was rattling again within a week. My replacement has been in for three weeks at the time of this review and the only rattling is the heavy gearing in my transmission. Hoping this one will keep for years to come.

Much better replacement over OEM. All steel construction- and this TOB can take a beating. I'm on my 2nd National TOB and they just don't quit. Significantly thicker over the MOPAR or LUK replacement TOB. A must-have for any manual NSG370 transmission.

The unit is made out of metal in all areas instead of plastic and metal like the cheaper units. It worked fine for a month but now has a bearing whirl noise when idle.

Used this in my 2004 TJ. I love the solid feel. It has been about 5 months of steady Southern California stop-and-go traffic and it is still perfectly quiet. You can tell the tolerance of the bearing is close and tight.

Nothing like having your Jeep tore down so you're ready for the parts...and the parts show up defective. Lesson learned. This bearing arrived badly off center, spun roughly, and had some sticky gunk on the face that actually touches the fingers on the plate. It's one thing to need to clean the part, but this is flat out unusable. The clutch kit came with a Throwout Bearing - it has a plastic composite sleeve, but the face is metal...I see people complaining about the plastic in the reviews for the Kit (the LUK kit, 065), but no one actually saying they used it and it broke. The Jeep forums have a few people who have used the kit's TOB for 25k miles and still going, no complaints. This has convinced me to give that a shot. This part will be going back - and hopefully not shipped out to the next customer. It seems like there's more than a few people this has happened to...

nice product

Very smooth Better than the one that came with the clutch kit

Completely disregard the low star rating review from the other purchaser. This part needs to have very strong clips. I'd rather fight with clips then have the throw out bearing fall off the shift fork while driving. I have two trucks with the same transmission. Both required a clutch change at the same time. Purchased two different clutch kits and noticed one of them came with a significantly better throw out bearing. I do my own work and I'm not willing to install a garbage throw out bearing if that means I'll just have to pull the transmission again soon because the throw out bearing started prematurely making noise. So I went and bought an SKF one from my local parts store. Brought it home and was amazed at how terrible it felt. Worst one of the three. So I returned it. Called around, everyone was only able to bring in SKF. So I turned to the internet. Without much to lose I purchased this one. And finally! This one matches the same quality as the one that came in my original kit that I was happy with. Solid, well built and buttery smooth. Very happy with this online purchase as it was a bit of a gamble seeing as how there were other terrible quality bearings out there and I am not too familiar with National. Just as a side note all of the throw out bearings I have been comparing have all been metal. I haven't been comparing cheap plastic ones to good metal ones.

The bearing is great quality and work like a charm thanks

Don’t buy!! After reading the comments I decided to order 2 of them because some said they were nice and some said they were bad. And I order both of them not a the same time. But both of them were off centered. Which could damage your hole transmission very badly. Don’t buy this product, it’s a scam.

HI THIS RELEASE BEARING WAS A EXCELLENT REPLACEMENT ...THE PREVIOUS ONE WAS NOT A CAST BODY BUT PLASTIC AND IT MELTED DESTROYING THE CLUTCH AND FORK AND ASSOCIATED PARTS THANKS AGAIN.....

Makes a horrible noise and wasnt centered Im sure it wil let go soon enough.