[Healeys] BJ7 clutch pedal travel

[warthodson at aol.com]

Frank,
Shimming the clutch master cylinder will change the fore/aft location of the
clutch pedal, but will not change the amount of travel. As I recall, adding
shims will move the pedal closer to the driver. To decrease the travel you
will need a larger master cylinder, but this change will also require higher
pedal pressure to operate it. I did this on my BJ8 and did not find the
increase in pedal pressure to be a problem & really like the shorter throw,
but the BJ8 clutch pressure plate id different form the earlier cars. Changing
the location of the clutch pushrod pivot point will also affect the travel,
but with the same tradeoff in pedal pressure. I went one size larger (1/8"
larger diameter).
Gary Hodson




-----Original Message-----
From: Frank Edwards <logical2 at hotmail.com>
To: healeys at autox.team.net
Sent: Wed, Nov 10, 2010 3:37 pm
Subject: [Healeys] BJ7 clutch pedal travel


Hello all;
y BJ7 is almost done.  Driven it around the house a little.  The clutch pedal
ravel seems to be awfully long.  The clutch engages in the upper half.  I
now there are sort of semicircular shims that go on the brake or clutch
aster cylinder but I don't really know what they do.  I have one but making
ore looks pretty simple, I'm sure they're used in pairs.  Is there away to
educe this travel?  Also, and I admit I haven't really looked at this yet,
as pedal moves quite a bit before the throttle opens up.  Just an adjustment
r is there more to it?  The entire throttle linkage has been rebuilt.
Thanks for your help.

rank R. Edwards 570-784-4662 logical2 at hotmail.com
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