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Re: [Spridgets] Gearbox and Engine Pulled to Find Healthy Throwout

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Gearbox and Engine Pulled to Find Healthy Throwout
From: Rick Fisk <refisk@chartermi.net>
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2012 20:13:58 -0500
How since you last successfully drove the car?  Clutch disk stuck to the
flywheel?


Sent from my keyboard

On Jan 22, 2012, at 7:31 PM, Kirk Hargreaves <khargreaves2@gmail.com> wrote:

> To the List. . . .
>
> After having two previous engine and gear box pulls to replace thrashed
> throw out bearings. . and once again losing the ability to shift ..  with
> the same symptoms as before (T Bearing found to be destroyed). . .  I
> pulled the lump to find that the T bearing is, this time, in perfect
> shape.
>
> I am replacing the gear box with a very clean Rib Case that specs out and
> appears to have had little wear.
>
> I wonder why my 59 with a 1275 acted as it had in the past, same symptoms
> as when the T bearing was found to be torn up . . (only chunks remaining in
> the round backing plate).  I had clutch pressure. .  but it would not shift
> into gear.
>
> Could it be that the gear box was at fault. .  or?   A strange situation
> for me as I had expected to once again find a thrashed T bearing as the
> culprit.
>
> Kirk
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