twas_brillig
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We haven't put a lot of miles on our BE with the Rivergate/Datsun 5 speed, but the wee beastie was grinding gears recently. Jeff the Guru did a bunch of fibreoptic viewing etc. etc. and we pulled the engine/tranny today, and the three spacers/stops that pop rivet onto the pressure plate were all broken (brittle fracture). The bushing in the flywheel also fell out with the transmission.
I have no idea what caused the failure. I'd put the assembly together per the Rivergate instructions (I thought) and ended up taking it into a shop after I'd screwed up somehow and had some real rattles happening.
Apologies for not being able to be more descriptive, but does anyone have any idea as to why the failure might have occurred? And the shop had forgotten to bend the loctabs over on the flywheel, but stuff happens - no complaints against the shop or the kit, but I'm sure curious about my three broken pieces.
I'm going with Gerard's optional Datsun clutch kit; might as well go to the beefier clutch to handle all that 948 cc goodness. Doug
I have no idea what caused the failure. I'd put the assembly together per the Rivergate instructions (I thought) and ended up taking it into a shop after I'd screwed up somehow and had some real rattles happening.
Apologies for not being able to be more descriptive, but does anyone have any idea as to why the failure might have occurred? And the shop had forgotten to bend the loctabs over on the flywheel, but stuff happens - no complaints against the shop or the kit, but I'm sure curious about my three broken pieces.
I'm going with Gerard's optional Datsun clutch kit; might as well go to the beefier clutch to handle all that 948 cc goodness. Doug