It is yet another Thankyou thread but It means a lot to me so..... Thanks a lot guys you did great


Last weekend was a big one for Tezza Bear, Bomber, GTHOFAN, Chris (Terry son), and myself with side help and advice from Schmee. We ended up changing my clutch and pedal box manly due to the clutch being so damn heavy and cracking pedal boxes even after it had been reinforced. I ended up getting a New clutch kit including Thrust bearing, spigot, rear main seal, another pedal box #4



After the BBQ it was time to put the new clutch in. By this stage Bomber had to depart us and it left only the 4 of us. Scott did the dash while both Terry & myself and Chris played with the undercarriage components. It was going well until I noticed that the clutch fork had no movement as the bell housing was getting tightened. I always thought that it has a bit of movement and after several calls it was confirmed that it should. So we had to find out what the problem was and we noticed the pressure plate wasnt sitting flush with the flywheel and after several attempts to get it to sit flush we broke one of the bolts for the clutch plate in the flywheel. We were frazzled so we took of the flywheel and tried everything to get it out including drilling but Thanks to Kev's Mechanical eng.. he managed to drill it out and re thread it for us. Kev also showed us how to get the clutch to sit flush and we took it back and put it into practice. We first had to put the flywheel back on which is 6 bolts but ended up being only 5 after Terry showed the Horse power in his arms and believe it or not snapped one of the big mother fucker bolts. GO TERRY

When it was time to leave Terry's, after a 18hr day under a box car, I pulled out of his driveway and everything seemed fine but it wasn't until we hit the end of the street that Scott and I heard horrible grinding noises and couldn't get 2 or 4 gear at all, 1st, 3rd, 5th worked but very noisy. At this stage I was angry and wanted to burn it but we kept going towards Bayswater as it didn't seem to get any worse. The next Morning Kev said to bring it over so he could listen to it. He drove it around the block and said gear box is fucked. I was happy to hear that it was just that and nothing else that could have caused damage to the clutch. After ringing around at wreckers and help once again from Kev we managed to find another box at Centre Road Wreckers in Clayton and fitted it. After we put the new box in we pulled the old one apart to see what happened. It ended up being the bearing cone where the Input shaft housing goes was missing causing the shaft to have movement in and out and the bearing had callapsed. Bugger but lesson learn't not to remove the housing without checking that the bearing cup and cone are there. A costly mistake.

Thanks guys for your time