- 1. XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 5 Dec 2000 19:58:49 -0500
- I was just talking to the wife of my Triumph guru mechanic and she mentioned a woman who wanted the clutch replaced on her XKE. The story blew my mind. She said that if you replace the clutch the way
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00239.html (7,567 bytes)
- 2. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Tue, 05 Dec 2000 18:06:13 -0700
- Makes me not so concerned about the 15 times I pulled the clutch on my Race Spit to get it working right. I now have it down to a fine art (about 20 minutes to pull it out and about 45 minutes to get
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00243.html (8,312 bytes)
- 3. RE: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 03:21:03 -0600
- Hmmmmm. Cutting the "frame"? Of an XKE? Very imaginative! Jim Hill Madison WI
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00253.html (7,340 bytes)
- 4. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 06 Dec 2000 02:37:49 -0700
- But, still, that's not with an XKE.... <smile> When I worked in a foreign car garage in the `70s, that was reputed to be the worst job around (never did one completely by myself then). After listenin
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00254.html (8,889 bytes)
- 5. XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:34:50 -0500
- Message text written by "Ken and Elizabeth" mentioned a woman who wanted the clutch replaced on her XKE. The story blew my mind. She said that if you replace the clutch the way the manual recommends,
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00264.html (8,017 bytes)
- 6. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 09:34:53 -0500
- Message text written by "Michael D. Porter" foreign car garage in the `70s, that was reputed to be the worst job around (never did one completely by myself then). After listening to the bitches and m
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00265.html (8,271 bytes)
- 7. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:04:31 -0500
- 70 hours!!!!!!!!! Something doesn't sound right here. I pulled the bonnet and motor from my E, had it on the floor with the transmission separated in less than 5 hours. I could have swapped the clutc
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00275.html (9,210 bytes)
- 8. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:26:50 -0500
- I called my shop, Mountjoys in MD and they said 40 hours was a bit high, but it was still a huge, very expensive job, requiring definite removal of the engine and tranny. But then again if you can af
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00276.html (10,011 bytes)
- 9. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:38:19 EST
- It was written: Reminds me of the classic line out of the equally classic 1960s Dick O'Kane book _How to Repair Your Foreign Car; a guide for the beginnner, the inept, and your wife_ (or something cl
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00278.html (7,491 bytes)
- 10. Re: XKE clutch replacement !!! (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2000 11:44:28 -0500
- Then there is the equally amusing line in the Ferrari workshop manual regarding replacing the starter... "invert the engine on the bench..." OUCH!!!
- /html/triumphs/2000-12/msg00279.html (8,265 bytes)
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