spitfires
[Top] [All Lists]

Pivot pins on Midget/Spitfire 1500 trannies... in situ?

To: "spridgets@autox.team.net" <spridgets@autox.team.net>,
Subject: Pivot pins on Midget/Spitfire 1500 trannies... in situ?
From: Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>
Date: Fri, 29 Jun 2001 04:22:03 -0400
  I am having a bit of trouble with my Midget 1500
clutch. (same as spitfire 1500)

  The trouble is that the throwout arm is too
loose on it's pivot.

  If I remove the clutch slave cylinder and grab
the little arm that sticks out, I can shake it
all around, it's loose at the other side (where
the pivot is).

  The original design has a pin that goes through
the bellhousing, and through the end of the throwout
arm. However inside this joint is a bushing that
keeps everything snug.

  Trouble for me: I have one of the bushings but
I don't think it's possible to insert this from
the outside. I beleive the assembly order is
to put this bushing in the arm, put it in the
bellhousing, press the pin through.

  From the outside, I haven't had any luck.

  Ideas? I thought about just using a fatter
pin, anyone try that before?

  Any ideas on snugging this up without
pulling the engine and tranny?

-- 
Trevor Boicey, P. Eng.
Ottawa, Canada, tboicey@brit.ca
ICQ #17432933 http://www.brit.ca/~tboicey/
Currently sentenced to a no-pucks practice.

///  spitfires@autox.team.net mailing list
///  To unsubscribe send a plain text message to majordomo@autox.team.net
///  with nothing in it but
///
///     unsubscribe spitfires
///


<Prev in Thread] Current Thread [Next in Thread>