Patrick,
Do not let the hydraulics get you down, I think we have all been there, if your
car is like all the other LBC just go ahead and rebuild all the hydraulics and
get it over with.
Restoration... at the last Sunbeam event we attended [SOS] there were more
people with Alpines in boxes than Alpines entered. Don't get me wrong, the cars
taken apart to their smallest bits and put back together are beautiful and I
would like to do a full restoration of our car, it is just that you cannot drive
a box. So if I could turn back the hands of time to when I was a new Alpine
owner I would buy another car to take apart and restore. Do it now and get all
the hair pulling and gnashing of teeth out of the way, it is to late for me, if
I had done it straight away before it was realized how expensive it is to buy
things for these cars I could have gotten away with it. Start shopping around
right away for another car, then you can have the best of both worlds, a driver
and eventually a fully restored Alpine. Jim 66 SV
Patrick wrote:
> I got my Alpine a couple of months ago, a SV, and when I got it, I knew the
> clutch cylinders needed repair. The clutch arm did not move when you used
> the pedal. The hydraulic fluid was just like mud, color, chunks and
> everything. I finally got around to removing the slave cylinder and I'm
> ready to put a new one on, but before I do, I want to make sure this is the
> only thing wrong with the clutch mechanism. (I am replacing the primary
> cylinder and line between them also.) I tried moving the clutch arm using a
> small wrench and the arm wouldn't move. I'd hate to reassemble only to find
> out the clutch still won't work. Question is: should I be able to move the
> clutch arm by hand or is that too hard to do? If I am supposed to be able
> to move it, is there any reason why I can't? (No jokes about arm strength,
> please.)
>
> My original idea is to get this running decently for about a year and then
> start a restoration. Now, I'm actually thinking of continuing to take it
> apart and start the restoration now. Any thoughts on either method?
>
> Thanks for any replies.
>
> Patrick
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