<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, Sans-Serif; font-size: 12px"><div>Hi Phil:</div>
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<div>You don't mention the reason for having to replace the clutch master and slave cylinders, so my answer below does not take into account any interaction between what may have caused that and your rod length dilemma...</div>
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<div>All that said, if it ran 25 years for you with the nut making the clutch rod longer, what is stopping you from just putting it back like it was and driving another 25 years!?!</div>
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<div>Al Fuller<br />
al@bighealey.org<br />
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'65 A-H BJ-8<br />
'85 Rx-7 GSL-SE</div>
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<div><span style="font-family: tahoma,arial,sans-serif; font-size: 10pt;"><b>From</b>: "philip fish" <philipfish@waitrose.com><br />
<b>Sent</b>: Wednesday, June 24, 2015 11:41 AM<br />
<b>To</b>: healeys@autox.team.net<br />
<b>Subject</b>: [Healeys] Clutch Slave push rod problem</span>
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<div>Hi all, </div>
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<div>Last week a friend and myself installed a new clutch master cylinder and slave cylinder on my 1961 Austin Healey 3000 BT7. On removing the slave we noticed that a small nut had been put on to the end of the slave cylinder push rod by a previous owner (I have owned that car for 25 years so it was some time ago!).<br />
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Why we wondered?<br />
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We put on the new slave (without the nut) and bled the system. Low and behold without the nut we where unable to engage gear as there was very little movement on the clutch pedal. Realizing that the the nut had been put there for a reason we removed the push rod from the slave and replaced the nut (1/4 " in width) and hey presto we then got more movement on the pedal and could engae all the gears. the push rod appeared to be a standard size.</div>
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<div> I have now got a extended push rod, but as its 14mm longer than the standard one it may not work.<br />
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Does anybody know whats going on? We assume that the real problem lies inside the gear box. What would be a better solution (without going inside the box)?</div>
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Any help welcome.<br />
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Phil</div>
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