[Fot] Need to figure out why my clutch stopped working...

[Charly Mitchel]

Look at the pin on the arm to the T.O. bearing on the shaft.

Charly Mitchel
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From: "sherry robyn" <sherryjimmy6116 at att.net>
To: "FOT" <fot at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, October 17, 2011 11:42 AM
Subject: [Fot] Need to figure out why my clutch stopped working...


> so I don't put it back together and have the same problem.
>
> The story is
> that I had never been into the clutch.  I only knew that the PO
> raced the 74
> TR6.  I autocrosses, and a hillclimb for the next couple of years
> with no
> problem.  Then at the tail end of this season at an autocross, I could
> smell
> my clutch after a run and it didn't want to go into gear.  Double
> clutching
> could get it to go.  There never had been the typical TR6 problems
> such as
> stiff clutch pedal, etc.
>
> After breaking it open, I find little wear on the
> spring fingers, a disk
> measuring appx. .290 in thickness, and all linkage
> even though plenty dirty
> functioning soundly.  The slave and master of the
> clutch is not losing fluid,
> and there is an adjustabe clutch rod that was in
> the middle hole of the
> engage/disengage lever that is only minimally worn
> oversize.
>
> I am putting in a new clutch, but at this point, I can't see what
> caused my
> failure in the first place.  Don't want to wrap it all up and have
> the same
> problem.
>
> Thanks for any assistance, Jim
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