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Re: TR6 Clutch Question

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Subject: Re: TR6 Clutch Question
From: Gerhard.Wiederholl@t-online.de (G. Wiederholl)
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 12:27:54 +0200
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Wages, Jeffrey schrieb:
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>
..............
> Also, is it normal (when the clutch arm is attached to the slave cylinder)
> for there to be no travel (indicating the release bearing is contacting the
> pressure plate springs)???


Hello Jeff, 

this seems to be normal for a TR 6 but not optimum. I just read an interesting 
article in a German motor magazin about the TR 6 clutch and try to translate 
what they say about the release bearing:

"...... The TR 6 clutch release bearing is known as a trouble part. They never 
lasted long(in Germany). "Britische Automobile" in Heidelberg and clutch maker 
LuK developed a clutch kit for the TR 6 with a constant rotating bearing and a 
special sleeve. Thatīs because on the TR 6 the clutch is actuated hydraulic, 
but 
there is no spring which disconnects the bearing from the diaphragm spring as 
found on the TR 3. BTW with the clutch kit not only this problem is solved. 
Also 
the clutch operates softer and needs lesser pedal force. ....."

It seems I found one more design of the "wonder clutch" as discussed some 
months 
ago.

Gerhard Wiederholl

1969 TR 6
1976 TR 7 RV




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