[Spridgets] Still no clutch

Michael Rowe mdrowe at optonline.net
Sun Oct 19 08:15:58 MDT 2008


1.  I still seem not to be getting enough travel on my clutch slave - about 5/16" when I calculate it should be more like 7/16".  All is new or rebuilt, and bled with a speed bleeder.  Linkages are not perfect, but not loose enough to cause such a large difference.  I have pumped out ~1.5 cups (maybe not enough?) and see no bubbles.  But I can also see a bubble in the plastic tubing that will not come out because it moves up faster than the fluid moves down.  Suggestions?

2.  I need to depress the clutch lever more to make sure that the clutch itself is actually working.  Any nifty tricks for extending the slave rod or pushing/pulling the clutch lever from somewhere else?  I am usually alone, so I can't just pry it from below while someone else shifts.  The only ideas I have are a filler at the inside end of the slave rod or an extension made of smashed and drilled copper pipe.  

Michael Rowe
'74 Midget
Long Island, NY


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