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Caution - Tranny Dust Cover - Vicky Brit

Jimmy74

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Ordered part number 14-761 from Victoria British which is a dust cover for my 74 tranny. It has a metal stiffener in it which stayed attached for 1 month. Then it parted from the cover and must have layed about in the bell housing until it and met up with my pressure plate at 3000 RPM.

'Twas a short, noisy conforntation that ended in it getting wadded up in a ball and thankfully not taking out the clutch or blasting through the tranny casing or taking out the oil pump cover on the back plate.

What i learned : remove this stiffening plate from the cover and throw it away. Look for better quality replacement parts!
 

jlaird

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Should not have a stiffing plate, should be all rubber.
 

bugimike

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look at the year, Jack, It might be since this is not a Spridget tranny but one of those "dark side" units!!
 

jlaird

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Oh, yep our smooth case and rib case trannys have no metal in the dust covers.

No, he got it from VB must be Austin stuff. No metal.
 

v8mgbal

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thanks for the heads up I just replaced mine and it was a pain to install with that metal plate in it, i'm going to go rip it out now.
 
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