Clutch on V6

[Miss Behavin]

As I am new to Wedges and just brought my first to restore I need a little help here. The car has had another engine, it must of had a hydraulic clutch before. But now it has a cable and there is no way of connecting it to the pedal, any ideas or bits that will allow me to use the cable or is there a kit out there to allow conversion?

Any help from you guys will be most welcome

[chassis 33]

Right...a few basics...what model is it? (I assume you're dealing with a 2.8 Ford V6). Is it a series 1 FHC, if so the first 65 or so (built to May 1980) had a hydraulic clutch, the remainder of the V6 cars had a cable clutch setup straight out of the contemporary Granada/Sierra (albeit possibly with a different length cable).

There's a few ways you can approach it, depending on the car. Drop me a PM if I can be of any help.

Regards
Iain

Edited by chassis 33 on Sunday 24th December 17:59

[Miss Behavin]

Hi, its a 1981 series 1 DHC 2.8 Ford V6. It has had another engine and changed to cable on the clutch but it was never connected because of the pedal is for a hydraulic clutch. Thanks for the Post Help

[chassis 33]

Let me have a think over the next couple of days, te brain is to addled at present to be of much use, there will be a way to sort things. I assume you want to keep the cable setup? The cable doesnt have a clevis pin connectionon the pedal end does it?

Regards
Iain

[Miss Behavin]

It seems to have a 6-8mm hole at the pedal end of the cable for like a bolt or a pin to go through. being the pedal is fixed at the top and moves there, it makes it hard to make something to work, would much better if there was a fixing about 14 of the way down the pedal then I would have a fulcrum affect. hope this helps

[SEvans]

If it works like my Tasmin 200, the pedal actually pushes the outer cable. The inner cable is fixed to a bracket to the left of the pedal, just at the side of the footwell. There is a 'cylinder'or 'barrel' bolted to the pedal arm with a hole drilled in the side which the outer cable sits into. As the pedal is pushed the barrel can rotate slightly to allow for the different angle of the cable in relation th the pedal arm.

[ed_crouch]

If its all no good, there is the option of fitting a concentric hydraulic slave cylinder inside the bellhousing. Burton power www.burtonpower.com sell kits for most Ford gearboxes. Theyre not cheap, but they are the mutts nuts (I fitted one to a Sprint prepared Vixen this year).

HTH.

Ed.

[micha]

found on burton homepage a clutch cabel from escort MK1...looks identical with the ones fitted in the tasmins. for the length i´m not sure. anybody knows the length of the tasmin cables?

[blackspider]

Im in the same boat here,i've got the broadspeed slave which has burst.Im pulling the engine out to change the box to a type 9 and convert to a cable clutch.

If you go to the Burton web site and tap in clutch cable at the bottom of the page and 1 up is a cable for a MK 1,2 and 3 capri 2.8 and 3.0

Im thinking of changing the pedal box to the crapi and fitting the cable as it was meant to be with the inner cable doing the work.Ive heard the Trevor way was slightly unreliable as the cable travels through some tight angles so this needs to be addressed.Hopefully the crapi cable is longer that the sierra version.

[kevsmev]

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