[Mgs] bad clutch or?

Charley Robinson Charley38 at twc.com
Tue May 28 15:21:53 MDT 2019


Read a post by a guy on MGE who had a badly elongated pivot hole in the 
throwout arm, causing erratic clutch operation.  Claimed he welded up 
and redrilled the hole. In any event I reckon the engine would still 
have to come out.

CR
On 5/28/2019 2:43 AM, PaulHunt73 via Mgs wrote:
> 
> Unlike physical wear at the pedal linkage, similar wear at the 
> slave end has no effect on clutch operation, the hydraulic system is 
> designed to take account of all wear at the clutch end.  Remember the 
> graphite release bearing is going to wear down by a 1/4" or so over 
> the life of the clutch, and given the unequal lengths of the release 
> arm that is going to be getting on for an inch at the slave cylinder.  
> The piston simply moves out to take it up, and more fluid back-fills 
> from the reservoir.
> If it's dragging exactly the same as before, and you have about 1/2" 
> of travel of the slave push-rod, then something is binding at the 
> clutch.  Either the friction plate is very stiff on its splines, or 
> the end of the first-motion shaft is dragging badly in the pilot 
> bearing.  Could also be the release bearing breaking up and not 
> pushing evenly on the cover plate.  Time to pull the engine - much 
> easier than pulling both - on an MGB at least.
> PaulH.
>
>     ----- Original Message -----
>>
>>     Replaced the clutch hose and the slave.  Still not shifting.
>>
>>     When you push in the clutch, the lever arm on the trans moves a
>>     decent amount.  I didn’t measure it, but its probably ½” to ¾”,
>>     something like that.
>>
>
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