[Tigers] Stiff Clutch

[Smit, Theo]

Hi Jay,
On the Tiger, you can't separate the transmission from the bellhousing without
pulling first the engine off its mounts and moving it forwards... which
requires you to remove the radiator, in addition to disconnecting the exhaust
and most of the other stuff that connects the engine to the car. With all
that, it's probably easier to disconnect the steering and brake lines, drop
the front crossmember, and then the engine and transmission down and out, as a
unit.

There is reasonable access to the clutch fork stuff, with everything in the
car, so you should be able to verify the operation of the clutch hydraulics
and whether or not the fulcrum plate is still there.

Good luck,
Theo

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tigers-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:tigers-
> bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Jay Laifman
> Sent: July 3, 2012 1:13 PM
> To: Tiger's Den
> Subject: [Tigers] Stiff Clutch
>
> Thanks for all the suggestions.  This weekend I'll check out the bore
> size
> of the master, bleed the fluid, and look at the movement of the lever
> going
> into the bell housing.  Other than that, it sounds like the other
> thoughts
> can't be addressed without pulling the tranny off and seeing what is in
> there.  I'm assuming that is not an easy task on a Tiger.
>
> I've done it a number of times on my Alpine.  But I'm not even sure I
> can
> bench press up the Alpine tranny to get it into place anymore.  And,
> with
> the Alpine, after basically undoing just about everything - enough to
> be
> able to angle the tranny down enough to pull it out, there is so little
> left that I always think afterwards that I just should have pulled the
> engine.  Yet, I figure the Tiger must be worse.
>
> Thanks again,
> Jay
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