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Re: Grinding Gears (& request)

To: Scions of the Spitfire <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Grinding Gears (& request)
From: Andrew Mace <amace@unix2.nysed.gov>
Date: Sat, 21 Aug 1999 12:02:53 -0400 (EDT)
On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Walt Fogle wrote:

> Incidentally, if anyone knows of a way to bleed the clutch
> system [on a Spitfire] WITHOUT  removing the transmission tunnel
> that would be a great piece of information to share!

I've done it, Walt, but it ain't easy. It requires some interesting 
contortions of the arm from below to get a wrench up to and on the bleed 
screw and then to open the bleed screw. It's not fun but, with practice, 
might save a bit of time over the tunnel R&R procedure.

--Andy

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