<html><body>Hi Simon-hope your blood pressure has come down. Yea, parts are parts, but the correct ones are most important. Additionally, anyone mucking with the OD, that doesn't know what they are doing, is trouble. Glad you are up and running-such a fine Healey it is. Enjoy your manual shifts! Hank<br><br><div class="reply-new-signature"></div><p>-----------------------------------------</p>From: "Simon Lachlan via Healeys" <healeys@autox.team.net><br>To: "Healeys"<br>Cc: <br>Sent: Monday November 29 2021 4:33:48AM<br>Subject: [Healeys] Update on clutch woes<br><br>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I received a lot of help and advice with
regard to the clutch problem on my MkII BT7 for which, again, many
thanks.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Here’s where we are:-</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">1) I replaced both master and slave cylinders
and even converted the former to having an adjustable push rod
which, mercifully, I did not have to use. No change.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">2) I bled the system more times than I’ve hot
dinners, as they say. No change.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">3) I had the gearbox out and back 3 - or was
it 4? – times. Centring that thing to a nanomillimetere if there is
such a thing. No change except to blood pressure.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">4) I had fairly fruitless discussions with the
supplier who assured me that “Nothing like this has happened
before”. No comment will be issued at this juncture as the lawyers
say.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">5) I gave up on the new kit and decided that
the new clutch cover, being 10+mm higher in the centre than the
old, was the likely culprit.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">It was indeed the culprit. Restoring the old
cover cured the problem 100%.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">6) I’d only swapped the clutch in the first
place because I had to remove the gearbox for an overdrive issue.
On inspection the old clutch parts looked pretty good and, while
you’re in there…..</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">However, new clutch feels better than the old
which is good.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">7) The supplier refunded me in full thus let
me keep the plate and bearing for free which was some
compensation.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal"> </p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Lightened flywheel by 14.5% off. Gives a nice
feel. Not a huge difference but more responsive. I’m pleased with
it.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">The overdrive pressure issue was solved by an
uprated accumulator and other related bits.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">You may recall that the pump would not go back
in, despite my best efforts? I thought I must be doing something
wrong but gave up in the end and drove the OD and box up to OD
Spares. Dave put in a new front casing as someone – NOT me – had
used some “Plastic Padding” (JB Weld?) in the area at the top of
the pump’s travel. I presume to reline a scored bore. Anyhow,
somehow or other, that stuff prevented my getting the pump back up
the last few mm. So, in effect, that half of the OD has been
rebuilt.</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">And it works!</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">I’d not had the car on the road until
yesterday as I’d been waiting for the return of my handbrake from
the platers. That’s back in and looks much better than before. I
even managed to adjust the handbrake cable as, miraculously, it was
all greased and nothing was jammed on the threaded rod.</p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">What next?</p>
<p class="MsoNormal">Simon</p>
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