- 1. smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: RPVanLuchene@lbl.gov
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 11:17:58 -0700
- Well I got my car back the other day and the car drives beautifully. Immediately noticed it as I drove away from the shop and onto the Bay Bridge. It is amazing how tight it feels. THe tube conversio
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00211.html (9,081 bytes)
- 2. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 12:00:42 -0700 (PDT)
- The stock-grade throwout bearings have been complete junk for the past few years. No matter how you press them onto the sleeves, they fall apart in just a few thousand miles, if that. I went through
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00212.html (10,691 bytes)
- 3. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: "James A. Tabor" <jatabor@hotmail.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 15:27:37 -0400
- Hi all, I am curious... Is the sign of trouble a bad vibration in first or reverse when let the clutch out? Or is this totally a different problem? I had this trouble and was told I was experiencing
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00213.html (12,015 bytes)
- 4. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:01:45 -0700 (PDT)
- You can tell when you have a bad t/o bearing because it makes a quiet squeaking (almost a whistle) at first, then gets really rough over time (you can feel it in the pedal when hitting the clutch) an
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00214.html (13,408 bytes)
- 5. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally or Dick Taylor)
- Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 14:04:11 -0700 (PDT)
- James--What you could be experiencing is cowl shake, present to some degree in a lot of the old roadsters due to lack of structural ridigity. Clutches hat don't release smoothly seems to magnify the
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00215.html (8,420 bytes)
- 6. smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: jay_welch@juno.com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:15:00 -0400
- Hello All, First and foremost, thank you all for the wealth of information shared through this list, Secondly, just my 2 cents regarding the clutch problems with the TR6 models. After reading many ar
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00221.html (14,735 bytes)
- 7. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 08:49:05 -0700 (PDT)
- I have the magic clutch in my car, and pedal pressure is extremely high. I didn't notice this so much when I first put it in, because I have always used Borg and Beck pressure plates in the car, and
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00222.html (18,716 bytes)
- 8. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: jay_welch@juno.com
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 12:11:01 -0400
- Thanks Tim. I also have a Laycock pressure plate that I believe is in good shape. Do you know if any of the disks available today are compatible with this pressure plate? Does anyone have any experie
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00223.html (19,543 bytes)
- 9. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 09:23:01 -0700 (PDT)
- Sorry, I am not aware of which disks are compatible with which pressure plates. In theory, I would think that it doesn't matter which disk you use, the disc simply has to fit the gearbox input shaft
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00224.html (21,865 bytes)
- 10. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: tr6taylor@webtv.net (Sally or Dick Taylor)
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 10:35:27 -0700 (PDT)
- Jay--First to answer your concern about the Toyota T/O possibly being harder to operate due to its larger diameter. I too thought this was going to be an issue, so before installing it I compared the
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00225.html (8,802 bytes)
- 11. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: Timothy Holbrook <tjh173@yahoo.com>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 11:18:39 -0700 (PDT)
- How did you measure the force needed to disengage the clutch? Maybe I could do the same on mine and see if my clutch is tighter. I'm not saying that mine is impossible to disengage or that I have a
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00226.html (10,500 bytes)
- 12. Re: smooth ride, clutch stuff (score: 1)
- Author: "Brooks Bullock" <airsmyth@covad.net>
- Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2001 23:44:38 -0700
- Tim and anyone concerned: I too also have had the same concerns with the clutch when I bought my 74 it came with clutch disengaging way down on the floor. I was told by the DPO that the clutch parts
- /html/6pack/2001-07/msg00233.html (12,349 bytes)
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