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Re: [Spridgets] More clutch

To: "Peter Caldwell" <peter@nosimport.com>, "Spridget List"
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] More clutch
From: "David Lieb" <dbl@chicagolandmgclub.com>
Date: Fri, 24 Oct 2008 13:13:52 -0500
But is he referring to an external spring or to the spring inside the slave 
cylinder?
David Lieb
1972 1960 1974 1973


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Peter Caldwell" <peter@nosimport.com>
To: "Michael Rowe" <mdrowe@optonline.net>; "Spridget Chat Group" 
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Friday, October 24, 2008 13:09
Subject: Re: [Spridgets] More clutch


> You have a spring?  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  No spring!
>
>         Peter
> ==
> At 12:50 PM 10/24/2008, Michael Rowe wrote:
>>Yes, I have more play than I thought  it the clutch pedal, mostly from the 
>>bushing.  But more to the point, my (new) slave cylinder is not filling 
>>all the way.  There is still 1/4" of looseness in the  _rod_,  not the 
>>linkage, as though the slave spring is pulling the piston back.  It takes 
>>1-1.5" of pedal travel just to reach the clutch plate.  I could put in a 
>>filler to lengthen the rod, but it really makes no sense to me that the 
>>cylinder will not fill, unless the slave spring is pulling it back.  Is it 
>>supposed to?
>>
>>I drove several miles this morning, then decided to bleed the clutch 
>>system yet again.  No bubbles, but now it won't work at all.
>>
>>Michael Rowe
>>'74 Midget
>>Long Island, NY
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