158,752 on my original clutch, runs good and no problems, have talked to acouple people on here saying they changed their clutch at 220k and 240k.
Dumping the clutch hard on trans, but not near as hard on clutch as riding the clutch all the time.
And alot of the time throw out bearings go out before clutch does, but if you at the point of changing throw out bearing, no wise to not change the clutch while is is tore apart.
Does it go into all the other gears fine?
If you are having a problem going into 1st, try going into 2nd or 3rd or 4th, say if it slides right into 4th then leave clutch engaged and back 3rd, 2nd then I bet it will slide back into 1st.
When at a stop it is not always a clutch problem but measly just all the gears not in perfect synchronization.
And even if you come to a stop and have problem going back into 1st, just hut 2nd real quick then back to 1st.
Most of the time I slide into 1st before I come to a stop and will slide in.
The throw out bearing does not need to move much to engage & disengage.