William, The bell housing and throw out assembly are the same as on our 1300
tr****ph. What you were missing was the fulcrum pin (definitely
necessary),and it's retaining sleeve (kind of like a wave washer in
cylindrical form). The bushings are removed as you noted, from outside
inwards, and are available from TR suppliers (where we got ours escapes me
at the moment). The clutch could, ostensibly work without the fulcrum pin,
as long as it was lost after the engine was assembled to the tranny. It was
probably pivoting on the bell housing. If the DPO didn't use a retaining
sleeve, then that's why the pin left. When I installed ours into our race
motor, I turned a new pin (extra long), and cross-drilled the end. Then I
pushed a cotter pin through and used it to keep the pin from falling out (
cotter pin to the top of the tranny). We haven't had a problem since, though
I've seen other TR racers drop them during races-clutch still works, but
doesn't disengage quite right. Hope this helps- Just my experience
Mark Haynes
'65 Spi***re RMVR #162
'62 HAN6
> -----Original Message-----
> From: William M. Gilroy [SMTP:wmgilroy@lucent.com]
> Sent: Monday, May 31, 1999 8:39 AM
> To: spridgets
> Subject: 77 Midget throwout bearing lever
>
>
> I have a question about the throwout bearing in my 1977 Midget.
> All of the manuals show the bearing release lever being held
> in on one side by a pin that is drive through the bell housing
> and the release lever. When I unbolted the transmission from the
> engine out came my bearing release lever. It appears the my release
> lever was not pinned in place. Now I have a couple of questions.
>
> 1. How could this work without being pinned in place? The
> car shifted fine before I removed the transmission.
>
> 2. All of the catalogs show 1 bushing and 1 pin. What I found
> in my car was: 0 pins, 2 bushings one pressed into the top
> half of the bell housing and on in the bottom half. The one
> in the bottom half can be removed very easily and the top half
> very tight (would need to be driven out).
>
> 3. What the heck is going on?
>
> Any ideas. I figure I would order a new pin and bushing and see how/if
> the stuff fits together. Anyone have a better idea?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bill Gilroy
> 77 Midget
> 90 Shar-Pei
> 1 perplexing transmission
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