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Re: This grinding is driving me NUTS!!

To: Trmgafun@aol.com
Subject: Re: This grinding is driving me NUTS!!
From: Robert Allen <boballen@sky.net>
Date: Sat, 02 Aug 1997 10:23:32 +0100
Trmgafun@aol.com wrote:
> 
> Since getting my MGA on the road this past Spring, I've had a problem here
> and there with my first gear grinding (seems to be getting worse).
> 
> I don't believe it's the hydraulics because everything is new.

I've always thought non-synchro trannys grind only when the clutch is
out of adjustment. That is, the clutch isn't disenaging enough to let
the input shaft stop. So I would still say hydraulics.

1) Wouldn't hurt to bleed the hydraulics again.
2) What is the condition of the rubber seals? Fluid color?
3) Make sure there is no mechanical wear at the cleevis pin and 
   fork at both the master and slave cylinders. Also, make sure
   everything is bolted down -- slave not flexing.
4) Don't old 'A's have adjustable pushrods between the pedal crank 
   and the master cylinder (or is that just the brake MC)?

My advice is worth what you pay for it...

Bob Allen, Kansas City, '69CGT, '75TR6, '61Elva(?)
"Make it idiot proof and someone will invent a better idiot."

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