Product review (4 stars): Newbie repairs an intimidating repair job and it worked!
Just a little info about me before I review this kit.  I really have no experience with mechanical parts or fixing complex mechanical machinery.  I'm a I.T. and Accountant guy, not a gearhead.  That said, I found Youtube indispensable in helping this newbie to perform this sort of a repair.  I did it because I reasoned, the parts weren't expensive, and what did I have to lose with a washing machine that doesn't work anyway?  I relied on several videos performing the same operation on a Whirlpool top load machine like mine, my machine is 17-years-old.  I purchased it new in 1999.  Earlier in this year I did use Youtube to learn how to replace the "Dog Agits" and that worked well, but replacing a clutch by removing the motor, transmission and agitator was a huge step up for me.  I can't say often enough how grateful I am to the men and women who make such videos for the rest of us.  I wish I could take them all out for a meal and a beer.  They saved me plenty of money by teaching me how to perform these repairs myself.

The repair was fairly straight forward and easy, the hardest part were getting the inner retaining ring seating back down onto the clutch sleeve; that's that hook-like part you see there in the Amazon product listing page.  I did panic when I removed the clutch finger (the larger plastic piece) and out came a steel nail piece that looked like an oversize needle with a hole in the middle.  After googling information about it, it was just a drop pin that the manufacture uses during shipping and is removed when the washer is first installed.  It serves no useful purpose in the everyday functioning of the washer so I was relieved and tossed it out.  While I had the machine apart, I did take time to clean up the grim using a degreaser and rag.  I have the motor coupler parts on order as well.  I ordered them at the sametime thinking it was a good time to replace all of those parts.  But the clutch arrived on time and the motor coupler parts look like they will be a week late so that will get done next week.

I have seen other views on this particular product page stating this clutch did not last long on their machine, so I will hold off giving this kit a five star rating and wait about 6 months.  If this part fails I will drop another star or two.  But at least I feel confortable knowing I can now order a more expensive part in the future and replace it myself.  That, at least to me, keeps my worries at bay.  I had thought this part was an original whirlpool part when I first ordered it and I did not realize it was a third-party part.  Time will tell if it works out for me, but as of right now I have the machine running washing one load at a time, two weeks of laundry that accumulated. That alone will pay for the cost of the kit comparied to going out to the laundromat.