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Re: Clutch Update

To: jerryvv@alltel.net, tr3driver@comcast.net, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Clutch Update
From: Dave1massey@cs.com
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 08:14:55 EDT
In a message dated 9/16/2005 7:02:08 AM Central Standard Time, 
jerryvv@alltel.net writes: 
> I've only experienced the problem 1 time and for some reason it wasn't
> affecting my clutch action. I only discovered that the pin was broken when I
> took the assembly apart.

Me too.  I suspect that a good, healthy 30% of the clutch pins out there are 
broken.  But they usually don't break cleanly and the broken pieces will bind 
up and cause the clutch to continue to operate with no obvious symptoms.  And 
since the force applied in one direction only there will typically be no 
relative motion between the components that can cause them to wear away so it 
can 
continue to operate normally for many years.  But occasionally (or eventually) 
this binding action will degrade and then problems arise and usually this 
coincides with routine clutch replacement anyway.

This is called highly optimized engineering.

;-)

Dave




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