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Re: Clutch release bearing

To: <rickb@brodynet.com>, <valntine@postoffice.ptd.net>
Subject: Re: Clutch release bearing
From: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Date: Sat, 27 Jun 1998 08:07:47 -0400
Cc: <spridgets@Autox.Team.Net>
Reply-to: "Tom Zuchowski" <tzuchow@ibm.net>
Sender: owner-spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
Please tell me what it is!

I went through THREE cans of brake fluid trying to bleed the clutch on my
1275. I thought I finally got it all out, but the clutch engages about two
inches off the floor.

Tom Zuchowski

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> From: rickb@brodynet.com
> To: valntine@postoffice.ptd.net
> Cc: spridgets@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: Re: Clutch release bearing
> Date: Thursday, June 25, 1998 7:02 PM
> 
> Kevin,
> 
> I just put my '74 Midget back on the road after major steel, paint, 
> and engine work.  I installed a roller bearing release bearing from 
> MiniMania and it works very well.  I also put in a teflon braided 
> hose from Moss, and the combination feels very good.  The worst part 
> is getting the hydraulics bled again, but I found a technique that 
> seems to work.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Rick Brodeur
> '74 MG Midget daily driver (again)
> '61 Big Healey tri-carb (next project)

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