[Mgs] 58 mga

[Paul Hunt]

Did you read Barney's page?  If not the relevant section says:

"One of the key features here is that the light spring inside the slave 
cylinder will keep the train of working parts in intimate contact. There 
will be no clearance or backlash between the seal cup, piston, pushrod, 
release arm, release bearing, and the input thrust plate on the clutch 
cover. This mechanism is therefore self-adjusting to compensate for 
clutch wear and gradual change of position of the operating parts, The 
graphite faced release bearing will run with gentle intimate contact 
with the release thrust plate. Graphite against a smooth steel surface 
is self-lubricating, so it will last a long time before it wears out 
(perhaps 80,000 miles or more)."

It's not physically possible for the hydraulic system to take up play in 
part of that train without taking up play in all of it. You can test 
this for yourself by using the release arm to push the push-rod all the 
way into the cylinder, then release it.  It should slowly move back, 
while it is moving there is free play in the linkage, when it stops 
there should be none.  If yours doesn't do that then the slave piston is 
sticking or the spring is missing or broken.  Make sure you have enough 
space in the master reservoir before doing that to prevent an overflow, 
but with a combined reservoir that is less likely to happen than with 
the small clutch-only reservoir on the MGB.

PaulH.

On 31/10/2023 18:33, Eric Russell wrote:
>
> Yes, the hydraulic clutch will compensate for wear in the *clutch* 
> components. But wear in the operating parts (like the slave's 
> pushrod/clevis) results in lost motion - the first bit of movement of 
> the slave cylinder will only take up the slack and not actually move 
> the clutch fork.
>
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