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Re: TR4 gbx shaft engagement length in clutch? - never mind

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Subject: Re: TR4 gbx shaft engagement length in clutch? - never mind
From: "J.C. Hassall" <jhassall@blacksburg.net>
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2004 21:13:17 -0500
At 20:14 2/2/2004 -0500, you wrote:
>Listers,
>
>I'm lightening a TR4 flywheel, and want to remove gobs of weight from the 
>face where the clutch mounts.  That in itself is no problem, but I need to 
>know how far the gearbox input shaft engages the splines on the clutch 
>plate.  I don't want to face the flywheel so much the clutch moves too far 
>forward and I only get partial spline engagement.
>
>An alternate measurement would be the dimension from the block surface 
>where the gbx mounts to the flywheel face - I can run the calculations 
>from there.


Wellll, never mind.  Rich Rock saved me from my own stupidity.  I had 
completely overlooked TO bearing geometry considerations.  And I'm too... 
ah ..."thrifty" to spring for the hydraulic TO setup.

Jim

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Jim
jhassall@blacksburg.net
Blacksburg VA
'63 TR4 in autox preparation, 90% finished, 90% to go 





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