[Spridgets] More clutch

Peter Caldwell peter at nosimport.com
Fri Oct 24 12:09:46 MDT 2008


You have a spring?  NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO  No spring!

         Peter
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At 12:50 PM 10/24/2008, Michael Rowe wrote:
>Yes, I have more play than I thought  it the clutch pedal, mostly 
>from the bushing.  But more to the point, my (new) slave cylinder is 
>not filling all the way.  There is still 1/4" of looseness in 
>the  _rod_,  not the linkage, as though the slave spring is pulling 
>the piston back.  It takes 1-1.5" of pedal travel just to reach the 
>clutch plate.  I could put in a filler to lengthen the rod, but it 
>really makes no sense to me that the cylinder will not fill, unless 
>the slave spring is pulling it back.  Is it supposed to?
>
>I drove several miles this morning, then decided to bleed the clutch 
>system yet again.  No bubbles, but now it won't work at all.
>
>Michael Rowe
>'74 Midget
>Long Island, NY


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