I just replied to Dave offlist and informed him that lateral movement of the
clutch throw out fork pin is not only normal, it is necessary, since it pivots
on the fork assembly as its engaged by the clutch slave. The vertical slop
shouldn't be of any concern either, unless as you say, the pivot pin on the
opposite side of the bell housing which holds the fork in place is missing or
broken. Vertical slop shouldn't have any bearing on the fore/aft travel of
the pin.
Things could have been worse. Like discovering that you neglected to position
the pin through the hole in the bell housing before bolting the housing up to
the engine and found out later that the pin was stuck inside! Don't ask me
how I know this!
Take care,
Jeff McNeal (San Diego)
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'70 GT6+ "Accidental", eventual restoration project
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----- Original Message -----
From: Greg Rowe
To: Spitfires@autox.team.net
Sent: Saturday, December 21, 2002 12:40 PM
Subject: Re: 80 Spit pushrod question
I believe that Dave is talking about the push rod from
the throwout bearing housing thingy (see, I'm good with
terminology too ;-) ) that inserts into the open end of
the clutch slave cylinder. I seem to remember there being
a fair amount of slop there, but I don't know if that's
worrisome or not. It wasn't to me.
I'm wondering if the pivot pin for the TO bearing housing
has sheered...
Greg Rowe
>From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@pop.mail.rcn.net>
>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
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