At 10:31 AM 8/31/2000 EDT, WSpohn4@aol.com wrote:
>....
>I won $20 from a garage owner .... He'd done up a customers MGA driveline
with an MGB clutch. .... I bet him the $20 that the engine wouldn't turn
over .... he even went so far as to grab the breaker bar .... Moral - you
can't use a diaphragm clutch in an MGA bellhousing without grinding some
reliefs, about 4 out of 5 times (I got lucky there).
>....
Aw, b'gosh, it's done all the time. I put a MGB diaphram clutch in my MGA
1500 several years ago, started with a used pressure plate, then installed
a new competition pressure plate, later returned to the first used one, and
finally installed a new stock MGB unit. They not only all fit, but I have
also swapped a couple of different engines between a few different
gearboxes and have still never had any interference problems.
$.02,
Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://www.ntsource.com/~barneymg
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