A Silly question!

[s3c chris]

Hello. I have started to gather some parts together to bring my 1991 S3c up to scratch, well almost up to scratch, saw two very nice "s" at Shelsley.....
I have new master and slave cylinders for the clutch along with a nice shiny braided hose, 1m long.
The question is this, whilst lying under the car yesterday (!) I saw that the clutch slave is on the passenger side and yet all the pictures I have seen show it on the driver's! Which is right?
I may need to get a longer pipe made up now!
Regards Chris.

[Stew Mc]

Hi Chris. My old S3C was a 1991 and the slave is on the passengers side with the pipe running over the top of the bell housing if my memory is correct.
Cheers, Stew.

[s3c chris]

Hello and thanks for the reply.
I know it seemed a silly thing to ask, someone said theirs was on the drivers side and the pictures I have seemed to indicate that too. I,m not sure if the pipe will be long enough, ordered it based on what I have read on the internet, which can sometimes be wrong!
I think I saw your S at Shelsley yesterday, a lovely car and lovely people too!
Chris.

[Sandgrounder]

Hi Chris, I am astonished! I knew there was small differences on these cars, but I can categorically state, that on my S3, the Slave is on drivers side. I didn't realise the differences could be so great!!!

Graham

[Stew Mc]

Was going from memory and am probably wrong so will leave it to someone who still owns one. I am getting old and my memory is not what is used to be!!!

[phillpot]

s3c chris said:

) I saw that the clutch slave is on the passenger side

So is the starter motor still on passenger side or is that swapped over too (can't be can it, oil filter in the way) ?

Edited by phillpot on Monday 17th June 18:55

[s3c chris]

Hi, the starter motor is on the passenger side too. The speedo transducer is also on the passenger side, is that normal?
There is no evidence in the history of a gearbox change so maybe TVR had an odd bellhousing lying around somewhere!
Chris.

[S2Mike]

Not that I know about these things but could it be one that has been converted to or from a LHD maybe?

[phillpot]

Or TVR got some LHD gearbox's cheap!

[Scoobimax]

Sandgrounder said:

but I can categorically state, that on my S3, the Slave is on drivers side.

Graham

+1 here. My S3 has the slave on the drivers side and a 1 metre hose is bang on but won't reach the passenger side if thats where yours is.

[s3c chris]

Just to confirm, I have had another look under the car and the slave cylinder is definitely on the PASSENGER SIDE! The pipe does indeed run up and over the gearbox as suggested. Memory can't be that bad after all!
How bizzare, but then again it is a TVR...

[phillpot]

The left hand drive bit does make sense..... Ford used a cable operated clutch so getting a cable from one side to the other wouldn't have been as easy as a pipe.

Anyone with a LHD S care to join in

S3c's came later in the S Series lifespan and I believe that by then Ford had long dropped the 2.9 engine with type 9 gearbox combination (moved om to the MT75) so appropriate bell housings may well have been in short supply?

Or somebody ordered the wrong ones?

Or an export order was cancelled?

Or ........ ?????

[v8s4me]

phillpot said:

...Or ........ ?????

It was a Friday and the production line couldn’t be bothered to go to the other end of the factory and get the RH one because they wanted to knock off early.

[Barkychoc]

V8s is drivers side :-)
So is the starter hence room on passenger side to route exhaust down the side of the bellhousing.

Edited by Barkychoc on Tuesday 18th June 22:46

[s3c chris]

Seems I must have a Friday afternoon car!
No, the exhaust is as per normal and comes forward, in front of , and then underneath the engine.
I can't see any obvious reason for the slave cylinder being on the passenger side.
Oh well. I'll have to get a longer pipe!
Chris

[Scoobimax]

You should be able to sell on the braided hose for a "normal" car easily enough - you can never have too much bling ;-)

[CNHSS1]

is it for the saab or ford master cylinder? assuming ford being late S3?
how much are you looking for? woukd save me cleaning my 'poverty spec' copper pipework lol

[glenrobbo]

CNHSS1 said:

is it for the saab or ford master cylinder? assuming ford being late S3?
how much are you looking for? woukd save me cleaning my 'poverty spec' copper pipework lol

It's clutch not brakes
But there you go, somebody will buy it, so there's no wastage on here

Our S's are so much more eco-friendly than some of the modern hybrid stuff that rely on precious metals & expensive alloys shipped twice around the World to a power hungry production line producing cars that have a life cycle of 5 years instead of our projected 30+ & then some!
There's no contest really, is there?

Sorry, got carried away there............

[CNHSS1]

sorry, posted too far down a bottle lol

i have changed both brake and clutch m/cyls and got confused!

ive just bought a new clutch mcyl and had to butcher the old flare nut to remove the old one, so need to replace and reflare the pipe or change for bling equivalent, so still interested

[CNHSS1]

sorry, posted too far down a bottle lol

i have changed both brake and clutch m/cyls and got confused!

ive just bought a new clutch mcyl and had to butcher the old flare nut to remove the old one, so need to replace and reflare the pipe or change for bling equivalent, so still interested