Yeah, but it LOOKS like the right part!
Jim
----- Original Message -----
From: "R. Ashford Little II" <ralittle2@mindspring.com>
To: "'Rob Pennington'" <robp@ncsa.uiuc.edu>; <6pack@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 10:53 AM
Subject: RE: clutch question
> Rob, I just went through this with my car and fixed it in the past
> couple of weeks. You may have a broken taper pin, but the first thing
I
> would check is your clutch master and slave cylinders. If you haven't
> replaced these in the past few years or don't know when they were last
> replaced then I would go ahead and replace them now. At the very least
> you will know that you have a new master and slave. The parts are
> relatively cheap also.
>
> If that doesn't fix it then it's on to pulling the transmission and
> checking the taper pin. A word of caution though: I performed this
> operation initially about six months ago, but my problems reoccurred.
> Upon removing the taper pin and expecting to find it broken I found
> something else. The taper pin wasn't broken, but BENT. I had
replaced
> the clutch cross shaft at the same time and didn't notice that the new
> cross shaft didn't allow the taper pin to fully seat into the clutch
> fork.
>
> This allowed the taper pin to wobble and lessen clutch throw, but I
had
> to hone out the cross shaft to allow the new taper pin to fit. I
don't
> know if this is a supplier specific problem, but the cross shaft that
> was defective came from Moss.
>
> It also doesn't appear to be a lone instance either since one of my
> friends helping me with the operation went home to check his out. He
is
> doing a body off restoration on his TR250. He found the same issue
with
> his cross shaft.
>
> R. Ashford Little II
> www.geocities.com/ralittle2
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net]
On
> Behalf Of Rob Pennington
> Sent: Friday, February 15, 2002 9:33 AM
> To: 6pack@autox.team.net
> Subject: clutch question
>
> I've been lucky for almost 10 years... but the dreaded "what's with
the
> clutch" disease seems to be manifesting.
>
> I replaced the transmission this past summer and installed a new disk,
> pressure plate and throw out bearing. The push rod from the slave
> cylinder
> to the clutch release lever had to be put in the hole closest to the
> pivot
> point to allow the clutch to fully disengage in 1st/2nd/reverse. This
> has
> been fine for ~9 months but now it crunches just a little bit going
into
>
> 1st and 2nd. I'm wondering if the fork retaining pin, which was new
> last
> summer, is backing off or even broken.
>
> Any suggestions?
>
> Rob
> 74 TR6 daily dribbler with occasionally crunchy bits
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