nigel burrows
Enthusiast
- Messages
- 16
- Location
- bedfordshire
Hello All. i have fitted a new clutch and release bearing. to my 1979 4. i have looked at the haines book. re adjusting clutch. peer into the slot on top of bell housing. with a torch.
there should be 3 or 4 mm between bearing face and pressure plate. i cannot even see the release bearing.!!!!!!!, i can see parts of it. i got my wife to gently press the pedal down. i adjusted the cable untill it looked like a small movement of the bearing untill it pressed on the pressure plate. but not having xray vision i am not sure its right. seems very err ham fisted. is there a cunning more accurate way. to get it correct. i still have a crunchy second gear. i could not find a new sychro hub anywhere. so could only clean up the old one. and hoped a new clutch might improove it. but is about the same.!!!!!. after a whole winter of dismantleing.
all best nigel.
there should be 3 or 4 mm between bearing face and pressure plate. i cannot even see the release bearing.!!!!!!!, i can see parts of it. i got my wife to gently press the pedal down. i adjusted the cable untill it looked like a small movement of the bearing untill it pressed on the pressure plate. but not having xray vision i am not sure its right. seems very err ham fisted. is there a cunning more accurate way. to get it correct. i still have a crunchy second gear. i could not find a new sychro hub anywhere. so could only clean up the old one. and hoped a new clutch might improove it. but is about the same.!!!!!. after a whole winter of dismantleing.
all best nigel.