To all who offered help,
Thanks for the offered help. This was the first time I needed to use the
resources of the
spridgets net and was very pleased with the response. I was really running
scared that I was
not going to get my car completed in time for the Sprite Rush.
I again spoke to Bill Perry at Rivergate and it appears that what was happening
on my car is
I was overpowering the pressure plate with the 7/8th" bore master cylinder
which was standard on the Bugeye.
When I was under the car watching the cylinder action I could not figure out
why the clutch fork was moving
over 1.5 inches but the clutch was not released.
Bill said that what I was doing was releasing the clutch then the pressure
plate would reverse action and then close
up on the clutch disk. I tried pushing the pedal only a little and guess what?
The clutch works and the transmission
shifts like slicing butter. The clutch is very easy to push to the point of
release almost too easy.
I like it!
Has any other 5 speeders experienced this? If so how did you set up a pedal
limit to keep from overpowering the pressure plate?
Again thanks for all the help, see you all at Sprite Rush.
Bob Magnotti
59 RHD 5 Speed Sprite
Fairfax, VA
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