Today was an even better day. I got the GT6 fully assembled. It
fired up without too much trouble and I drove it aroudn the
neighbohood successfully. Even used 3 of the 4 gears. They all
worked. The clutch behaved and sounded normal.
This was all due to a squealing bearing between the input and
mainshafts, also producing a whine on overrun. I had a local machine
shop put a hardened sleeve on the tip of the mainshaft, then
installed new bearings of course. I took the opportuntity to have a
pin put into the brass TO bearing holder to eliminate the noise where
it had gotten so worn.
It's only been a year or so... Yay!!!
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Jim Muller
jimmuller at rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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