Ron:
Welcome. Just a note. Be careful with the freeing process. I
installed the incorrect sized clutch disc into a car once. It was a tad
oversized, just enough to bind. I jacked the vehicle up and did the wheels
spinning, jam the foot on brake and clutch trick. With a screech, I managed
to weld the inner bush of the clutch disc to the inner bush of the clutch
diaphragm. Luckily the clutch cover was not badly damaged.
All four wheels, two driveshafts, transfer case and gearbox on a
Land Rover make one hell of a welding rig.
Kelvin.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Ron Howard [mailto:DigiFX@coastalnet.com]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 28, 1999 1:33 PM
> To: buick-rover-v8@autox.team.net
> Subject: Greetings & Problem
>
>
> OK, I've been lurking here long enough. By way of
> introduction, I am Ron
> Howard, long time owner of 2 chrome bumbered '74 MGBs, one of
> which I fitted
> with a '62 Buick 215. Let me say I am impressed by the
> quality and quantity
> of information you fellow listers make available. I'm hoping
> someone out
> there can offer me a better suggestion than I have come up
> with to solve my
> problem concerning a stuck clutch plate. It worked fine as
> late as 3 months
> ago....I've been moving and no time to play with car. These
> are facts about
> clutch system, though I don't think they should matter:
> Stock MGB master
> and slave, both new <1000 mi. ago. Action feels perfect at
> petal. I just
> completed a bleed job, just to make sure....petal feels as
> perfect as it did
> before bleed. Clutch is 10" MGC, same as TR8, working on a
> trimmed down MGB
> flywheel. In 11,000 mi. it has always worked perfect. I have
> tried the usual
> clutch freeing methods: 1) Use starter motor with petal in
> and gearbox in
> 4th, 2) Petal down, 4th gear engaged....me pushing and
> pulling on car until
> exhaustion, 3) Petal down, 4th gear engaged...yank hell out
> of car with
> Jeep...result: car drags both Positraction geared rear wheels.
> Any ideas other than pulling motor and trans for surgery?
> Boy!...Do I not
> want to do that so bad!
> Please...somebody come up with a miracle here...Thanks for
> any other ideas,
> blessings, prayers, incantations, voodoo, whatever..... Ron
>
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