How old was the bearing? For a while they were attaching the carbon ring to
the casting with a roll-pin, but expansion and contraction caused the carbon
to break up in short order:
http://www.paulhunt73.webspace.virginmedia.com/mgb-stuff/images/rbearing3.jpg
http://www.paulhunt73.webspace.virginmedia.com/mgb-stuff/images/rbearing4.jpg,
this had done 8k. The manufacturers soon went back to bonded, but that left
a stock of pinned floating around, so it's been a case of buyer beware ever
since.
PaulH.
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> ... But the throwout bearing - or I should say the remains of
> the throwout bearing were a sight to see.
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