I'm using "Haynes" terminology....sorry if I was unclear
I'm not a clutch guru, but I believe it's called a clutch arm pushrod that
attaches with a pin thru the clutch arm lever. This horozintal rod (about 5"
long with a bushing on one end) goes into the slave.
The bracket is really a "round 1 12/2" opening in the bellhousing the slave
gets inserted into I called it a bracket because of the pinch bolt, but I
guess its not really a bracket.
Should this rod, or whatever it's called, have any play in it at all, or
should be be tight with no play back and forth or side to side. Right now it
seems to flop down and rest on the bottom of the opening and I can pull it
back and forth about 1/2". And what I am facing in regard to replacing if
indeed that is a problem
Thanks
Dave Willner
59 TR3A Apple Green
80 Spitfire Carmine Red
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
To: "Dave Willner" <dwillner@icontech.com>; "Spitfires"
<Spitfires@autox.team.net>; <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 2:38 PM
Subject: Re: 80 Spit pushrod question
> On 21 Dec 2002 at 13:03, Dave Willner wrote:
> > When I went to reinstall the slave I noticed the pushrod was laying on
the
> > bottom of the bracket and there seems to be about 1/2" - 3/4" of
horizontal
> > play in it. My pedal goes 1/2 - 2/3 down to the floor until it engages,
but
> > very light before that.
> > Time for a new pushrod?, or?
>
> I'm quite familiar with the 80 Spitfire clutch arrangement but I have
> no idea what you're talking about! "The pushrod was laying on the
> bottom of the bracket"? Umm, did you check the framistan or the
> widget adjustment mechanism? :-)
>
> I can think of nothing that would be called a pushrod that would be
> worth replacing! Are you talking about something on the pedal end or
> the slave end?
>
> (You'll probably get three copies of this reply, one to you and one
> to each of the lists. Sorry about the redundancy, and also the
> repetition too.)
> --
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@pop.rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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