CLUTCH TROUBLE

[Quinny]

The initial message was deleted from this topic on 20 October 2011 at 17:47

[yellowgriff]

Quinny. If the arms just got a hole in it. You could just have the hole migged up in a couple of minutes. Don't know what area your in, if close to one of my body shops you could pop in for a coffee while one of my staff do it for you,,

[dnb]

At 100k+ I would agree that replacement is a good idea...

I don't think your part numbers are far wrong, although I think my slave cylinder part number ended slightly differently. I can't find the receipt to confirm, but I will have another look in the file.

http://www.powertrackbrakes.co.uk/ were quite helpful for me, but I suspect you already know about them.

[DarkMatter]

I'm sure I read somewhere (and it may be another internet myth) that the original clutch slave cylinder has a different bore to those supplied as replacement parts by the TVR specialists so it will be interesting to hear where you source your slave cylinder, what part number you buy, and whether it performs as well as the original one used to.

[rigga]

Recently replaced my slave from tvr power,and has been often stated the bore is different and the pedal is heavier to depress,not so much that it botheres me,but it is noticable,whilst the car was recently at David Geralds for service they picked up on the heavier clutch,and i mentioned that it was generally recognised the original was no longer available so all the aftermarket items were that way,though he said the ones they supplied were exctly the same as the original and no heavier to operate....

Ill dig my invoice number out in a bit if you want ?

Edited by rigga on Monday 4th October 14:52

[big geoff]

did you remove the gearbox to get the fork out

[Del 203]

Quinny said:

big geoff said:

did you remove the gearbox to get the fork out

Nope

Fork will come out through the hole in the bottom of the bellhousing (T5 gearbox).

Takes a bit of jiggery pokery, but it will fit..

I know of one specialist that only does it by dropping the box

[ladygooddriver]

Quinny said:

And probably charge more than enough for the unessecary work...

Not for the LT77 though.


Lady

[spend]

We are talking solely about T5s, the whole bellhousing / clutch / box / linkage scenarios for LT77 & T5 are completely different.

Now if we had a T5 bottom end with a LT77 top end

[LordGrover]

... we'd have:

[neal1980]

I would replace with the beefed up version of the arm think its from Clevor Trevor, its got a piece of steel welded across it. Or you could adapt a standard one. But from memory uprated one was quite reasonable about £30-35 I think.

Neal

[ladygooddriver]

I noticed the fork is the same as used in LT77 and thought it worth mentioning the fork can't be changed reliably unless removing in the case of an LT77.







Lady

[LordGrover]

That'll be the well known supplier mentioned on Monday then?
They're usually pretty good, I've used them a few times and it's been delivered as promised. Goes to show, no one's perfect eh?

[LordGrover]

Oh yes, I'm not disagreeing. I'd be royally pissed off too.