Ken,
>From my understanding you can hone, but just a very little bit or you end up
making the cylinder too large for the seals. Sometimes you can find oversized
seals to make up for this. However, I don't remember seeing them for British
cars form the big 3. You might have luck getting them from Team Triumph or
SpitBits. If your master is leaking it is worth looking at the slave.
I believe the trouble with shifting when the engine is cold has to do with the
synchros not spinning up to speed yet. Try letting the clutch out with the
tranny in neutral then shift into first.
Roger Elliott
Ken Bertschy wrote:
> Boy, it just doesn't pay to go the cheap route.
>
> I had a problem shifting into all gears on my 77' Spit 1500. It was like
> the clutch wasn't completely disengaging and I had to force the shifter
> through the gates and into gear. My master cylinder was leaking a lot, so
> I replaced the seals. Then it was leaking just a little but the shifting
> only improved marginally. Then I bought a used master cylinder from Dan
> Carey (Thanks, Dan!). I honed and cleaned the cylinder, put new seals in
> and . . . it shifts even worse than before!
>
> I get the idea that honing out the cylinder was a stupid thing to do
> because now I think that I have an internal leak in the master cylinder and
> that fluid is getting around the piston and not actuating the slave
> cylinder far enough to disengage the clutch. Is this possible? Has anyone
> else had this problem? I have not touched the slave cylinder at this
> point, but could this be happening at the slave cylinder too?
>
> Also, does anyone else have trouble shifting into first when the engine is
> cold and the idle is high due to the choke?
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