The clutch fork is mounted on the cross shaft with a taper pin. This pin
often shears resulting in excessive play. That alone can make good
hydraulics act bad. Also. the movement of the fork is radiated through the
cross shaft to the clutch pushrod. It is my suspicion that this unwanted
vibration allows small amounts of air to be sucked in past the seal in a
marginal (internal scars) slave cylinder. Of course, it simply could just be
that you never got all the air out of the system.
Bob Kramer
Hill Country Triumph Club
Corinthians Vintage Auto Racing Club
TR3A, TR6, TR4A
rgk@flash.net
-----Original Message-----
From: richard bacon <rbacon@netcom.ca>
To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, April 26, 1999 9:47 AM
Subject: TR6 clutch hydraulics question
>
>Greetings Listers:
>I have rebuilt both the master and the slave clutch cylinders, replaced
>the plastic hydraulic line and bled the system thouroughly (three times)
>with alternate methods.
>I still loose clutch action after 15 minutes of driving.
>Master cylinder was a little pitted internally and the Bentleys cautions
>that any pitting will render the cylinder useless: anybody had
>experience with this problem?
>should I replace both cylinders ? (!!!!!$$$$$).
>
>Any input would be of help
>
>rick
>72 TR6
>
>
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