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RE: Clutch

To: "MGS (E-mail)" <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: RE: Clutch
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Mon, 17 Jan 2000 14:41:08 -0800
Sounds like a dead or dying cylinder. Check the fluid at the bleed screw 
-- if it's black or grungey looking, that's it. Then you need to figure 
out which one is the culprit. You can probably think of a way to do 
this...


Lind, Jon had this to say:

>I've got the same problem.  The clutch doesn't work at all.  
>
>The clutch used to work, but it was extremely "short throw"--as soon as
>you moved your foot the engine was engaged.  So I set about to bleed it,
>trying half a dozen techniques.  The last one I tried was running a tube
>from the bleeder up to the MC and waiting for it to pump free of air.
>
>Here's something weird mine does, however--it makes a "squishing" sound
>when you pump it.  Sounds like a leak to me, but I can't find it.
>
><<
>Any tips.
>
>The clutch pedal goes to the floor without working the clutch on a 75B
>I'm 
>looking into.  Any pointers?
>
>Feels like its lack of hydraulics.
>>>
>


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.


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