I probably have 50K on mine, at this point. No problems. Moss used to also
sell a "heavy duty" clutch kit, that did have a rep for problems, I
believe... Kelvin?
BTW, pulling the engine & tranny in the B sounds a lot more difficult than
it is. If you are familiar with the procedure, have the parts and the hoist
on site, and a good helper (another mechanic, not a grunt or a disinterested
girlfriend), you can have it out and back in in 4 hours, without rushing
things. The biggest time sink is the tranny crossmember-to-tranny bolts, and
a little drill & file work after it's out to create access will speed up the
reinstall process.
First time, I would allow a whole weekend.
--
Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires
on 11/2/05 3:32 PM, Dodd, Kelvin at doddk@mossmotors.com wrote:
> Putting official hat on for a moment.
>
>
> Moss sells two clutch kits. One supplied by Delphi Lockheed, that used
> to be Borg & Beck, the other from Quinten Hazell. Comparing the two of
> them side by side, the Borg & Beck lineage one seems to be the best
> value for money.
>
> Returns and complaints on the Delphi-Lockheed kits are extremely low,
> the most typical problem being an inability to fit the disc over the
> transmission splines.
>
> We did have problems with throw out bearings being damaged in shipment
> due to poor packaging. This was communicated to the manufacturer and
> now all bearings have plastic shields to protect the faces. We still
> have an inspect order on these clutches and do repack if necessary with
> additional material.
>
> Any verifiable failure of these kits due to quality should be reported
> to the vendor. In the case of Moss Motors, these failures are
> documented, researched and reported to the manufacturer.
>
>
> On the recommendation side. Harry Haigh in our technical department
> needs a clutch in his 1976 MGB. He is going to have a Delphi-Lockheed
> (Borg & Beck) kit installed. Even with a high boost supercharger on his
> car, it will work fine.
>
>
>
> Kelvin Dodd
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net] On
> Behalf
>> Of Paul Root
>> Sent: Wednesday, November 02, 2005 2:36 PM
>> To: S. Allen
>> Cc: mgs@autox.team.net
>> Subject: Re: First MGB Clutch
>>
>> I got the kit from Moss in July 2001, and it's still great.
>> Probably 10-12K miles.
>>
>> S. Allen wrote:
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>>> Stay away from the "kit" that Moss sells. I used it in mine and a
> year
>> later
>>> I was changing it again. Bob Mason of the B register said it was the
> 5th
>>> time he'd heard of it that summer. Instead get the clutch and disc
>> seperate
>>> from Moss, (they're made by Becker?) and don't have the same
> problem.
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