Hello Phil,
I don't know if you got my previous message, but your experiences and the
fixes you have tried are EXACTLY like what has happened to me. So far, I have
replaced all of the parts in the mechanical linkage to get rid of ovalled
holes, worn pins, etc. I replaced all of the parts in the bell housing
including the taper pin, the cross shaft, bushings.
Because of this, I know the cause/solution will be one of three things:
(1) a worn master cylinder (the slave cyl. isn't leaking)
(2) a problem inherent to aftermarket clutches (unlikely).
If the problem isn't solved by fixing (1), I'm going to try the next-to-last
resort:
(3) replacing the master cylinder with a .75" bore master cylinder.
I still believe that the Triumph engineers (I hope this isn't naive) can't
have designed the clutch to work this way. I have worked on solving this
problem for so long that it has almost become an obsession. I probably need to
get professional help (psychiatric and/or mechanical).
Please let me know if you have discovered anything that might be of help.
Thanks,
Milo Kral
Applied and Engineering Sciences
Vanderbilt University
(615) 322-2756
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