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Re: TR6 Clutch Problem

To: jgreenb1@ix.netcom.com
Subject: Re: TR6 Clutch Problem
From: aj253@rgfn.epcc.Edu (Tony Robinson)
Date: Sun, 17 Dec 95 21:25:57 MST
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net


>I havebeen experiencing severe clutch problems at times with my 1976 
>TR6.  Mainly in hot weather, and sometimes in cool and cold weather, it 
>is very difficult and sometimes impossible to engage first gear from a 
>stop when the engine temperature is above "normal".  I sometimes have 
>trouble engaging second gear but not nearly as much difficulty as 
>first.  
>
>If and when I finally do get into first gear, it is as if the clutch is 
>engaged, in other words, if I am in first gear and let off the brake, 
>the car will move forward. 


Hate to be the eternal pessimist, but the problem sounds to me more like 
mechanical than hydraulic. Like maybe the lay gear or its bearings, the 
single weakest component of a Triumph tranny. 
 Anybody else got any thoughts?
Tony R. 
66,67,68,69GT6
64TR4
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