[Fot] Spitfire Slave Cylinder Vexing Me

[Spitfire Racing]

We freely interchange bell housings from Mk1 thru 1500s. All will work. Even
the Herald will work.no dimensional difference at that location.

Russ Moore
Spitfire #49

-----Original Message-----
From: fot-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:fot-bounces at autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Greg And Alison Blake
Sent: Sunday, January 19, 2014 3:47 PM
To: Mike Jankowski
Cc: FOT
Subject: Re: [Fot] Spitfire Slave Cylinder Vexing Me

Hey Mike any chance the earlier engine places the clutch cover further
towards the front of the car?

> On Jan 18, 2014, at 11:09 AM, Mike Jankowski 
> <mikeragtopeditor at gmail.com>
wrote:
>
> Hi Everyone,
> I've hit the end of my rope on a problem with a Spitfire slave cylinder.
> Here's the facts:
>
> Car shifted perfectly until I swapped engines.
> Replaced 78 engine with a 76.
> Left trans in car, never touched it.
> Test drive after swap was good except shifting was notchy and reverse 
> ground some.
> Opened clutch master, reservoir almost empty.
> Topped off with fluid, shifting still bad.
> Bled clutch, no real improvement.
> Double checked slave cylinder to make sure it didn't get loose, made 
> sure it was all the way forward.
> Shifting was better but progressively worsened as driven.
> On the move shifting was ok, but hard to get into 1st, ore reverse, 
> and at stoplight car would creep forward with clutch pedal to floor.
> Bled 2 more times, no real change. Had to doubleclutch up and
downshifting.
> Pulled slave cylinder, put 1964 penny as spacer.
> Car shifted like new on test drive, and subsequent drive to grocery store.
> On return from store, as soon as started car could tell again not 
> fully releasing.
> Notchiness, though not as bad, is there again.
> Slave cylinder is 4 years and 47,000 miles old. (I drive my Spit quite 
> a bit as well as autocross it.) Also, at grocery store looked at 
> clutch master and fluid had gone past the lid, but I suspect it was 
> slightly overfull when we left home.
>
> Do I just replace all the slave cylinder bits? Not really sure what to 
> do here.
> Thanks,
> Mike
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