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kodanja

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<span style="font-family: 'Arial Black'"><span style="font-weight: bold">I'm back on the road after 3 weeks of down time.

Pictured below is the reason why.</span></span> :cryin:




btw: thanx Paul!!!! its always the small adjustments....
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& thank you John @ Quantum.... :thankyousign:

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Bill,

Glad yer back on the road.

Your clutch looks totally different than mine.
Here is what my 69TR6 has. What did you install?

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As others can testfie, I really dont beat on this car.

could have been a factory defect...

The Broken one is a Borg and Beck, It looks like I have the same one as Dale now.
I belive it to be a Volvo type.
the B & B has 3 points of contact where the Volvo has 16!!!


Bob lets get together now!!!!
the nights are nice & warm!

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I have always wondered what the springs in the clutch disc are for, anyone have an answer with me googling it to find out
 
They are shock/vibration absorbers. Racing clutches don't have 'em.
What looks like one plate in the photo, above, is actually two pieces. The splined collar is one and the plate that used to hold the friction disc is the other. The splined plate drives the second plate through the springs.

The original clutch in my BMW R69S motorcycle did a similar thing to me. It had been idle for about 8 years and when I resurrected it, the clutch began to drag. I though it might be old, sticky grease on the spline, but when I separated the tranny from the motor, rivets fell out. It turned out that I was one rivet away from being stranded by the side of the road. Yikers!
 
hondo402000 said:
I have always wondered what the springs in the clutch disc are for, anyone have an answer with me googling it to find out
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They cushion take-up, and reduce tendency to grab/chatter. Some racing clutches don't have them, which contributes to their "binary" nature.

BTW, one of our local club members had the same thing happen to his TR6 a few years back. Must've been a bad batch of clutch plates or something.
 
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BTW, one of our local club members had the same thing happen to his TR6 a few years back. Must've been a bad batch of clutch plates or something. [/quote]


John at Quantum thought it was a factory defect as well.
the one that blewout only had about 1200 miles on it...
 
Did you have to buy a new disc, or did someone stand behind that disc that should have been able to go farther than 1200 miles?
 
That has the potential to do some serious flywheel damage if the two parts catch each other while spinning and become one again in a twisted manner. It could then rapidly blow apart sending metal everywhere in the bell housing.
 
I'm sure that it was shut down quickly or this discussion would have a lot more pictures to look at.
 
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