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#1 Tomf

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 03:42 PM

Well i went to fit my clutch return spring today, but i brought this non genuin slace sylinder from minispares ( http://www.minispare....aspx?pid=34423 ) and there is no where for the spring to attatch to...

So what should i do to overcome this problem? will it be bad not to fit the spring?

#2 jayare

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 04:08 PM

The spring fits onto an egg-shaped plate which has a large hole in it to fit over the bleed nipple and a small hole for the spring - check the old one if you still have it - it's probably still on there! If not, it's not too hard to make a new one with some 1mm or so thick steel sheet. The purpose of the spring is to keep the release bearing off the clutch when not in use - not fitting the spring will reduce the life of the release bearing as it will be spinning much more than with the spring fitted.

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edit - part number is 2A3600 from Somerford PDF catalogue here: http://www.somerford...lutch-Cover.pdf (item 48) but doesn't come up on Minispares site.

Edited by jayare, 06 July 2008 - 04:12 PM.


#3 Dan

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 06:26 PM

That's because it's been NLA for about 15 years. There is never a spring anchor built into the pre-Verto slave cylinder, it is always a seperate plate. You can use anything that will hook over the bleed nipple and hold the spring, I usually use a wire circlip.

As above it is quite important to fit the spring.

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 07:07 PM

Cheers ill find somewhere to hook the other end to then...

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 08:44 PM

M Machine in Darlington supplied me with the spring location part last week..... maybe they have a new source.....

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 09:25 PM

They make most of their parts themselves. A part described as NLA means not available as genuine. Didn't know M-Machine were making these though, seems like a really odd little part to start making when you consider how easy it is to replace with something else. Even a cable tie will work!

Do you mean the slave end or the clutch arm end by the way?

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Posted 06 July 2008 - 09:55 PM

The slave end, dw ill do something to hold the spring in place :D




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