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Re: spridget clutches

To: "Spridgets Group" <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Subject: Re: spridget clutches
From: "Mostyn Faulkner" <mostyn_f@email.msn.com>
Date: Sat, 4 Jul 1998 19:33:19 -0700
Reply-to: "Mostyn Faulkner" <mostyn_f@email.msn.com>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Honestly
My fork was bent,bent as in "not like a new one".
And nobody liked my double meanings...or you just thought me crude..I
thought it was cute. But I'm from California where sprites don't rust (much)
I read all this tech stuff and mine was just bent!!!
Yours may not be but how would you know unless you compared it to a new
one...Try and see.
I love reading all the responses to problems especially Bob and Frank who
have great senses of humor...keep it up. E-mail has never been this much
fun.

Mostyn

-----Original Message-----
From: Steve Byers <byers@cconnect.net>
To: Larry and Sandi Miller <millerls@msn.com>; Vllas@aol.com
<Vllas@aol.com>; usbacons@ihug.co.nz <usbacons@ihug.co.nz>
Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 1:08 PM
Subject: Re: spridget clutches


>I can follow Alex's explanation as far as it goes, but the problems I have
>with it are:
>
>(1) This would presuppose that the designers of the clutch made no
>provision for compensation for wear, other than replacing the rod with a
>longer one.  In that case, I would expect the shop manual to make some
>reference to it, and that "replacement rods" would be identified as such.
>If this "fix" was jury-rigged to make the clutch work because the throwout
>bearing was worn out, then I would expect it would be a lot of work for not
>much time left on the clutch anyway, at which point you would have to
>rebuild the clutch and go back to the standard (short) rod.
>
>(2)  My car already had the longer rod installed, and the clutch was
>working fine before I rebuilt it.  I rebuilt it only because it was
>convenient at the time to do so.  With the new parts installed, the clutch
>would not work until I reinstalled the old (long) pushrod).  As Larry
>points out, Alex's explanation does not adequately address this.
>
>Last summer, I was able to pick up a disassembled '68 Sprite for a good
>price.  The pushrod that came with that car looked exactly like the
>original "rough-welded" long rod that was in my Midget.   From the looks of
>them, It's hard to believe that these things were produced other than in
>somebody's home workshop, but I'm still looking for a satisfying
>explanation.
>Another question would be, how would anyone know how long to make the rods
>so they would work, but not make the fork overtravel?  Maybe that leads to
>the bent fork theory.  If the rod was made too long, possibly it could bend
>the fork the first time it was used.  From then on, you would need the long
>rod.
>
>Steve Byers
>Havelock, NC USA
>'73 Midget GAN5UD126009G  "OO NINE"
>"Truth is precious.  Use it sparingly"  -- Mark Twain
>
>
>----------
>> From: Larry and Sandi Miller <millerls@msn.com>
>> To: Vllas@aol.com; usbacons@ihug.co.nz
>> Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
>> Subject: Re: spridget clutches
>> Date: Saturday, July 04, 1998 2:40 PM
>>
>> Alex
>>
>> How do you explain the shorter rod working with the old parts and the new
>> parts requiring the longer rod?
>>
>> LM
>




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