Kendall:
You can contact British Auto Works to see if they have a used
one that is not "ovaled". www.britishautoworks.com. I checked and Rimmer
Brothers no longer carries them new.
You can MIG weld some extra metal into the pushrod holes and
redrill to the correct size.
You can drill out the holes in the pushrod and the pedal, then
go up a size in the clevis pin.
Vance
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-6pack@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-6pack@autox.team.net] On
Behalf Of Kendall Larsen
Sent: August 20, 2006 10:02 PM
To: 6pack List
Subject: Re: Yet another clutch thread
Hello List,
An update on my clutch repair project that has been dragging on for
weeks. I
inspected the clutch push rod more carefully today while in the midst of
replacing the seals in the cylinders. (Replacing the seals because it's
not
hard, and wasn't all that expensive, and I can I can check now them off
the
list of likely culprits.)I think I found a source of a lot of lost
travel. The
clutch master cylinder push rod is not in good shape. The hole is ovaled
out as
you can see in the pictures linked to below.
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h138/tr6login/IMG_3466.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h138/tr6login/IMG_3467.jpg
http://i63.photobucket.com/albums/h138/tr6login/IMG_3468.jpg
(kind of a tricky item to photograph)
So the question is, since TRF doesn't sell push rods for the master
cylinders
anymore, what have you guys been doing to fix ovaled out pushrods? (I'm
assuming maybe incorrectly that the other suppliers aren't selling this
anymore
either)
One solution would be buy a slave cylinder push rod, cut off the good
end and
then attach it to my current push rod. Seems a bit brute force though,
any one
have any good suggestions?
Kendall
San Clemente, CA
Interesting footnote... apparently "ovaled" isn't really a word.
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