Use a Borg & Beck kit. They may cost more but they are the best.
Mike
-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew B. Lundgren <lundgren@iname.com>
To: mgs@autox.team.net <mgs@autox.team.net>
Date: 10 July 1999 21:35
Subject: Clutch gone. (?)
>While driving my '70 B today I heard a noise that sounded like pop cans
>getting torn up. It stopped as soon as it started so a went another
>block or two trying to figure out what it was. (sounded like it could
>have been the speedometer cable almost, but that was still working...)
>Tried to stop at a light, when I pushed in the clutch I felt a lot of
>grinding and the clutch did not disengage. (The engine died.) I
>started it up and tried again (hope?) Couldn't get it in gear. I
>popped open the hood and removed the cover to the brake/clutch to see
>if I was lucky and it was the pin for the clutch. It wasn't. To make
>a long story short, I managed to get home and into my garage in third
>gear without stopping.
>
>Now I am thinking I am going to have to pull the engine and replace the
>clutch. I have read a few rumors about clutch brands etc.
>
>Which brands of clutches are good VB has two, one is not named, the
>other is Borg&Beck. Is there a type I should avoid? I was planning on
>doing the cover, disc and the release bearing all at once. I was also
>planning on doing the rear main seal, and putting the pan gasket on
>with a bunch of gasket maker as well as the gasket this time.
>(Replaced that without maker on the gasket and my B has dripped ever
>since, something it didn't do before I replaced the cam shaft.) Add
>wiring for my backup lights (don't know what happened to that!)
>
>Anything else I ought to do while I am in there?
>
>
>All that said, I have done my cam shaft, all brake cylinders and
>clutch. Am I in over my head? Looks like a lot of work from my
>chilton and leyland books, but I am game (I think) :)
>
>TIA!
>
>Andrew Lundgren
>Lundgren@iname.com
>http://www.itwest.net/~lundgren
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