I spent a frustrating six months working with the clutch on my '73. I
replaced everything....twice. There was absolutely no play in the linkage
anywhere, and the pedal still engaged right at the floor.
I was in the local LBC garage the other day and he said, "Step on the
clutch for a moment." with his head under the bonnet. Seems the plastic
lines sold by some of the parts places actually expand, taking away part
of your peddle travel. He said they had scratched their heads for days
over a TR7 that just couldn't get any clutch.
He says you can feel the line pulse when you push in the peddle and
offered to custom make me one that would not expand.
I haven't checked it out, but I was wondering if anyone else has noticed
this? I assumed, since I replaced the hose, that it could not be a
problem. So never checked. DUH!!!! If so, I will not be happy with
whomever sold me that plastic hose and caused me to take the tranny out
TWICE! :-(
Let me know what happens.
Michael....St. Louis, or thereabouts
On Sun, 22 Nov 1998, Pete & Aprille Chadwell wrote:
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> Just got done replacing the clutch in the TR6. Thank you all for the
> suggestions on the bushings, etc. I solved the fork/pin issue by having a
> local machinist make up a new pin, and that I'm sure will work perfectly.
> The bushings for the cross-shaft came from TRF and were twice the width of
> the old ones that came out, so I just used one per side.
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> The clutch works fine and all, except that it "grabs" way down close to the
> floor. I mean WAY DOWN. Incidentally, I rebuilt the clutch master and
> slave, so the hydraulics are in reasonably good condition. I also repaired
> the stretched hole in the yoke on the master cylinder pushrod, so I've
> eliminated quite a bit of lost motion in the entire linkage. (New sleeve,
> new fork pins, new shaft, new bushings, etc.)
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> Has anyone else remedied this characteristic by making modifications to the
> pushrods on either the slave or master cylinder? Would fabricating an
> adjustable-length pushrod for the slave allow you to adjust this? Or would
> any such modification simply be compensated back out by the
> "self-adjusting" slave cylinder? Any suggestions on how to improve this?
> I'd sure like to see the clutch grabbing right about half-way through the
> pedal's travel.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Pete Chadwell
> 1973 TR6
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