I agree a total bodge, it must have taken them triple the time to bodge the clutch in there, you think you’ve seen everything then someone comes along and just astounds you. I have written to the former owner a Terry Stockwell through FB, voicing my opinions on his cowboy friends, needless to say no reply has come back, but am I surprised I think not really.
Gazbo
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Is it just me........some of this sounds implausible, how can a clutch be changed, installed or anything else through a small hole cut in the bell housing.
There certainly some amateur mechanics about, all the more reason to check your new purchase thoroughly or have someone who knows what they're looking at.
Whatever, glad you got to the bottom of the problem @ironhorse.
There certainly some amateur mechanics about, all the more reason to check your new purchase thoroughly or have someone who knows what they're looking at.
Whatever, glad you got to the bottom of the problem @ironhorse.
jamesmartin
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someones not telling the truth, its impossible to fit a clutch without separating box from the engine, you cant misalign clutch plate and have the input shaft run through it
brianp38dse
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Did you take any pics of the bodge would de interesting to see, its got to hold the title worst bodge ever.
I imagine, rather than take the box off completely, they may have moved it back a tad....just enough to bodge it & run.
If the release fork is misaligned, the pressure on it through grinding bolts and whatnot, would be able to put more pressure on one side, perhaps forcing the bearing in an up or down fashion.
I once did a clutch on a Picasso diesel, where the woman used to rest her left foot on the pedal. I ended up having to weld and reshape the fork as it had got caught up in the input shaft when the bearing went through the forks and jammed. Easy enough and it's still going three years down the line as she was told the pedal is NOT a foot rest
If the release fork is misaligned, the pressure on it through grinding bolts and whatnot, would be able to put more pressure on one side, perhaps forcing the bearing in an up or down fashion.
I once did a clutch on a Picasso diesel, where the woman used to rest her left foot on the pedal. I ended up having to weld and reshape the fork as it had got caught up in the input shaft when the bearing went through the forks and jammed. Easy enough and it's still going three years down the line as she was told the pedal is NOT a foot rest
Fergie46
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Cavaliers you could back in the eighties - neat arrangement whereby you pulled the first motion shaft back through the 'box and removed an access panel in the bell housing.
Have to confess to being completely baffled by the description of the clutch failure in this instance.
Have to confess to being completely baffled by the description of the clutch failure in this instance.
jamesmartin
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id imagine they tried to fit the box with both halves of the bell housing instead of fitting the front half with the release arm and fork which takes some maneuvering, then fitting the box and with rear half of bell housing fitted, it would take something to get release fork behind the release bearing connected to the clutch cover trying to fit the box with both halves of bell housingI imagine, rather than take the box off completely, they may have moved it back a tad....just enough to bodge it & run.
If the release fork is misaligned, the pressure on it through grinding bolts and whatnot, would be able to put more pressure on one side, perhaps forcing the bearing in an up or down fashion.
I once did a clutch on a Picasso diesel, where the woman used to rest her left foot on the pedal. I ended up having to weld and reshape the fork as it had got caught up in the input shaft when the bearing went through the forks and jammed. Easy enough and it's still going three years down the line as she was told the pedal is NOT a foot rest
They were awesome! Clever bit of design. I had a friend, who was a girl, who owned a Nova. She was meant to be heading south and her clutch started slipping a few hours before she was due to leave!
I told her to get the parts and I would do it before she left. She was panicking because she'd been told it would take half a day to do the clutch. I said to bring it over, packed and ready to go. She did so, went into my house to have coffee. 45 minutes later it was ready.
I'll never understand why no one else took up the torch and ran with this epic design.
It was pure and simple, engineering excellence
I will have another chat with the garage that removed and renewed my clutch, the chap defiantly said they had cut a hole in the gearbox to get the clutch in, at the time I didn’t question his words I was just amazed at what he was telling me, since like some of you having time to digest his words questions have come about, I did see the removed clutch and is was in bits, the centre of the friction plate with the spline had been completely torn out and there were cracks all over the plate, the pressure plate with the thrust bearing, the thrust bearing was nearly out of the plate, he did also tell me that bolts had been ground down to allow the room to fit the release mechanism. I will pop in to the garage this week and speak to the mechanic; I normally do my own repairs but on this occasion I was quite some way from home, so allowed a local 4x4 garage to do the work, the garage is new to me so they are not aware that I know about mechanics, thinking back on it the man could have just been spinning me a line, anyway I’ll speak to him this week and let you all know.
wil2813
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wil2813
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& vauxhalls
