Jeff,
The plate I got was a modified stock Nissan plate. If you look at the side that
faces the TO bearing, you can see that the lip around the area that rides on
the
tranny shaft, has been machine down.
- Bryan
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>Bryan,
>
>Thanks for the excellent points; I'm still learning even after having
>bought a kit. Actually, Bill now ships all the machined parts if you
>buy the 'deluxe' kit, so there is no waiting at all. I'm not sure if
>the clutch plate is modified; he says it's a Toyota plate from the
>NAPA parts bin. I'm pretty certain that after every item is taken
>into consideration and the tranny is in the car and running, the
>conversions are very close in price (I believe within $50), but
>again, it depends on what you need.
>
>Thanks again,
>
>Jeff
>
>At 9:51 AM -0800 3/28/00, Bryan Vandiver wrote:
>>Jeff,
>>
>>Good overview, but here are a couple small items worth mentioning:
>>
>>Paul's kit does modify the BMC flywheel to accept the stock Nissan pressure
>>plate. This way you can use the stock clutch plate and TO bearing, and no
>>modification to the clutch fork, or TO carrier is necessary. The advantage, of
>>this is, if you need to replace the clutch plate and TO bearing, you can just
>>get 'stock' nissan parts from your local parts place, or Nissan dealer.
>>
>>Bill's kit requires that you send in the clutch fork, and TO carrier to be
>>modified, and you must also cut the 'tube' that the TO carrier
>>slides on in the
>>tranny itself. In addition the kit includes a 'modified' nissan
>>clutch plate to
>>work with this setup. Because of the mods, whenever you need to to a
>>clutch job,
>> you can't just buy and use a 'stock' nissan clutch plate/TO
>>bearing, from your
>>local parts place and install them.
>>
>>In either case, when you buy the kit, you still need to ship parts
>>back to both
>>for modification.
>>
>>I'm not sure, but I believe, that even after Paul modifies your flywheel, you
>>can still use it with the stock setup... Paul??
>>
>>Also, included in paul's kit is an 'angle-drive' adaptor for you
>>speedo, and in
>>the Rivergate kit this costs extra, so, the difference in price can be as much
>>as $200.
>>
>>I purchased the Rivergate kit myself, but that was before I learned about the
>>Morris Service kit. In retrospec, I may have gone with the Morris kit instead.
>>I especially like the fact that the starter was move on the Morris kit to take
>>advantage of the 'bulge' in the 210 tranny housing, and wondered why the
>>Rivergate kit didn't do this. (I wondered about this, even before I knew about
>>Paul's kit)
>>
>>I have talked to both Paul and Bill on the phone, and they were both extremely
>>knowlegible, and helpful. So from my perspective, you really can't
>>go wrong with
>>either kit.
>>
>>- Bryan (59-bugeye)
>>San Jose, CA
>
>
>_____________________________________________________________
>Jeffrey H. Boatright, PhD
>Assistant Professor, Emory Eye Center, Atlanta, GA, USA
>Senior Editor, Molecular Vision, http://www.molvis.org/molvis
>mailto:jboatri@emory.edu
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