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Subject: [Healeys] Clutch question
From: eyera3 at gmail.com (I Erbs)
Date: Thu, 7 Apr 2011 08:44:04 -0700
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Well said, plus clean and paint it.
You can get correct paint in a rattle can from Moss

Ira Erbs
DIGS-4 Solutions
Portland, OR

sent from my Droid, please excuse typos and random self corrections because
my phone has It's own ideas about what word I meant to write

On Apr 7, 2011 8:42 AM, "David Nock" <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> I also would recomend while the transmission is out. To clean up the
> transmission and replace the front seal, rear seal and the O rings on
> the overdrive cross shaft, install rear crankshaft seal kit, rear
> transmission mounts.
>
> Other options that i would recomend would be to rebuild the clutch
> slave cylinder and install a new flex hose, and for a performance
> upgrade option you can consider a light flywheel.
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> David Nock
> British Car Specialists
> Stockton Ca 95205
> 209-948-8767
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> www.britishcarspecialists.com
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> On Apr 6, 2011, at 7:08 PM, Richard Ewald wrote:
>
>> Back when I was young and dumb (and broke) I tired using just a new
>> disc a couple of times (Yeah I can be a slow learner).
>> What David and Ed said is the truth. Always replace as a set. Or
>> take to a quality rebuilder and have it redone totally.
>> Personally if I am doing a clutch it would be:
>> New pressure plate
>> Disc
>> Throw out bearing
>> Pilot bush or bearing
>> Resurface the flywheel (and if the machine shop uses vice grips to
>> remove the dowel pins or worse yet machines them off you yell at
>> the guy and make him fix it and then you find a new machine shop
>> before you need any additional machine work)
>> I have learned the hard way that cutting corners on this job never
>> pays in the long run. And you know what they say, learn from the
>> mistakes of others, you will never live long enough to make them
>> all yourself.
>> Rick
>>
>> On Wed, Apr 6, 2011 at 2:27 PM, David Nock
>> <healeydoc at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
>> Always install a new clutch complete assembly. Unless you just enjoy
>> removing the transmission at a later date and doing all the work over
>> again.
>>
>> Personally I would rather be out driving my Healey
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