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Only other thing I can think of is the throw out bearing has been worn down to th' nub. Or did you change the clutch pieces when the box was out?

I've seen bent fork arms too but only from impact, not from normal use.
 
Push rod for 948 and1089 is 2 3/8 long,

1275 is 2 11/16 Hole center to end.
 
Tried nut again, much better, almost cured. What does that tell me? Hydraulics still crappy? or what? Anything crazy stupid about just running that way? with essentially longer pushrod at slave? Still a little "nick" when hitting 4th, no grind into 1st (as long as I'm dead stopped).
 
No, it tells you that the rod that goes into the master cylinder needs adjusted some. It is adjustable, maybe two turns longer.

Run it with the nut in there, no problem. Sounds like you just have worn parts like the clutch fork bushing and the clevis rod clevis at the clutch cylinder. Hay, the car is getting older every day.

Not to worry, enjoy it, you are not causeing damage with the nut in there.
 
I tried adjusting the push rod at the MC before, no effect, maybe not enough, maybe still being masked by air bubbles, who knows. Great, I'll fiddle the the push rod at MC and just run the nut then. THANKS!

Now for that fuel issue and oil
leaks issue.........
 
Fuel issue?
 
Something that occurs to me that no-one has touched on is the possibility that the throwout bearing fork has been bent. It is a long shot, but I have seen it happen!!!
 
Well, when I had the engine and gearbox all apart, the throw out and clutch disk/pressure plate all looked very new yet (supposedly only 2,000 miles (and 20 years) on them. I opted to put them back in. The fork was on the donor tranny and I didn't think to examine it for much of anything, looked the same as the one on the box I took out. I did examine the linkage points and all that, nothing was worn hardly at all. Maybe there's a bushing missing off the shifter fork or something and I've got to compensate for that. Don't know.

Yes Fuel issue I won't start another thread because I think I've got it already, seemed like the SU electric pump would cut out, riding down the road, under load or going fast I'd have fuel starvation. When sitting working on stuff the pump would turn off, don't know if this is by design or not.
Had a decent Carter pump sitting on the shelf so I swapped them out.
Same problem, perhaps even worse!
Next changed the see through filter that was right before the Weber and had no more issues, although it sure "looked fine". Don't know for sure it's all cured as it was intermittant but I'm hoping.

Oil leak:
had it bad between spin on adapter and housing, Permatex got that but now it seems its coming out of the block/housing joint. Not too big a deal to pull it off and reseal it.

Oil pressure runs a constant 60 though, never seems to change much either, hot or cold, idle or high revs, doesn't very much that I've noticed.
 
Pressure should vary. Down to about 20 at idle and 40 or so on the road. 60 at start is good though.
 
bugimike said:
Something that occurs to me that no-one has touched on is the possibility that the throwout bearing fork has been bent. It is a long shot, but I have seen it happen!!!
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Umm.... scroll up. :smirk:
 
And that is something I need to check as well this fall when I pull the engine again. Tony said he had an old smooth box one I could borrow to make a compairison when I pull mine.
 
Jack, here is a picture of a rib-case vs. a smooth-case it it is of any help!
 

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I have a smooth case as you would expect Mike. Need to check my fork against another just to make sure. Have a new throwout bearing comming as I know mine is 1/4 inch thiner than the orginal but it came with a clutch kit and I used it anyway. Might have been a mistake, one of those duh things.
 
Yep, should have known better I supose but kind of figured the manufacture knew what he was doing. That would have been a plus.
 
You did notice that the smooth-case one in my pic. is bent! I do not think it is supposed to be!! I have a spare smoothcase tranny that has a quite different-looking fork on it in that the slave end on it has a loop instead of the clevis-pin set-up!! Have any of you seen this before? Could this be out of something other than a Spridget?
 

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Did not notice it was bent till you pointed it out. It really happens now I can see, it's not old wives tail. Seems like it is bent the wrong way from how the pressure would be applied. No clue but it surely looks bent.

Guess I best find a good one just to be sure.
 
Maybe got bent laying around the garage? They do tend to stick out begging to be snagged and bumped into, no?

BTW
This thread sums up my experience, I'll put the longer 1275 slave push rod on the list for my next order, and I'll try different size nuts, wondering now about an easy way to fab up an adjustable one.
 
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