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Re: [Spridgets] Fwd: Spridget Clutch release bearings

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Subject: Re: [Spridgets] Fwd: Spridget Clutch release bearings
From: brian S <bugeye15@hotmail.com>
Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2012 09:57:21 -0400
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It appears from Gerard's web site that the 1275 TO bearing has the most
offset.
Here's some pics to illustrate.


http://gerardsgarage.com/Garage/Tech/TO_Bearings/tobearings.htm

Brian S.
Bugeyeracer finally resto'ed!
Thanks to Frank C.!


> Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2012 01:33:16 -0400
> From: johnsfolly@gmail.com
> To: spridgets@autox.team.net
> Subject: [Spridgets] Fwd: Spridget Clutch release bearings
>
> One of you guys might be able to help out with this...
> -JohnD
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: MANLEY FORD <manley776@yahoo.com>
> Date: Thu, Apr 19, 2012 at 7:56 PM
> Subject: Spridget Clutch release bearings
> To: John Deikis <johnsfolly@gmail.com>, Chris Meyers
<MGVRMeyers@comcast.net>,
> Kropf Gary <zeke5550@aol.com>, Larry Smith <lrsmg@aol.com>
>
>
> I'm trying to source from Moss (or wherever) the best clutch release
> bearing for use with competition clutches that I just sourced from England
> to go in T-series go-fast cars using a light flywheel from either Bob
> Grunau in Canada or Brown & Gammons in the U.K.  Having mocked it up with
> old carbon type release bearings that I have around, I'm pretty sure I want
> to find new ones with the biggest available "offset".  That is the greatest
> distance forward from the mounting pins to the actual carbon surface.  It
> seems to me (and the guy in the U.K. who made the clutches confirms it)
> that the one I'm looking for would be for a Spridget.  But...which one?
>
> Moss lists three different part numbers depending on whether its for a:
> 948  190-910
> 1098  190-915
> 1275   190-920
>
> Do any of you guys know (or could you pass this along to the Spridget
> group) which of these would be the one I'm looking for?  Or are the all the
> same?
>
> Thanks,
>
> -Manley
>
>
>
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