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Re: Clutch Problems, lever Won't return

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Subject: Re: Clutch Problems, lever Won't return
From: Jay Quinn <jpquinn@cyberramp.net>
Date: Sun, 06 Apr 1997 15:23:37 -0500
Are forks interchangable between a '62 smooth case and a '72 rib case
transmission?

Q

At 03:05 PM 4/6/97 -0500, David Deutsch wrote:
>Sounds like a bent clutch fork to me, ouch. I hate it when that happens 
>Safety Fast, David Deutsch
>
>You wrote: 
>>
>>Hello Everyone:
>>
>>I've got clutch problems now.  :(
>>
>>I ordered a slave rebuild kit because I could see it leaking and the
>>outside rubber grommet had popped off as well.
>>
>>After taking off and rebuilding and replacing, I discovered that the
>>retaining ring was gone on the slave cylinder unit.  That was because 
>the
>>slave piston broken it out and thats what allowed the piston to go far
>>enough out the slave cylinder (Breaking the retaining ring) and 
>popping off
>>the outside rubber grommet.
>>
>>Anyway, after replacing and trying to bleed out the air of the clutch 
>it
>>was noticed that the lever that the slave pushes against wan't 
>returning
>>back to the rest position, or what I think is an engaged position.   
>IOW,
>>still like it was pushed in.
>>
>>This has lead me to believe that the spring that works with the throw 
>out
>>bearing and the pressure plate is broken with inside the clutch area.  
>And
>>thats why the lever doesn't seem to return and thats why the piston in 
>the
>>slave travels to far to brea kthe retaining ring and so on.  Thats my 
>story
>>and I'm sticking by it
>>
>>Anyone out there have any advise on what to do, look at and what to 
>try to
>>repair this problem?
>>
>>Thanks in advance,
>>
>>Q
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>>Jay Quinn     Systems Engineer
>>jpquinn@cyberramp.net Pager: 972.319.7611
>>http://www.cyberramp.net/~jpquinn/index.htm
>>
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Jay Quinn       Systems Engineer
jpquinn@cyberramp.net   Pager: 972.319.7611
http://www.cyberramp.net/~jpquinn/index.htm
1962 Austin-Healey MKII Sprite HAN6L2874

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