Well I feel a bit down today. Went to fire it up and the starter made this terrible graunching sound. Pulled it off and there were metal shards all over the place.
Suspected ring gear so took an impression and compared it with the 4L80E flex plate. Not the same. Rang Dellows. No one knows how the wrong ring gear got put on the Chev flywheel.
No option but to pull everything out again.
Dellows have been very co-operative. After talking to them Fri AM they offered to send up a new ring gear. I was not to confident in shrinking it on so they machined up another flywheel with ring gear and got it away by Fri PM.
Fingers Crossed.
Flywheel still has not arrived yet but according to tracking its in Kingaroy.
In the meantime because I have cut the front off the LT95 its lost the mainshaft bearing retainer lip. So with the circlip on one side I milled some recesses, drilled some holes and made some retainers from mudguard washers.
How much thrust will be on this bearing anyway?
New flywheel and ring gear arrived. Fitted it yesterday and spun the starter to make sure all OK before I offered up the box. Should have done that last time. Connected up the box and linkage all OK so far. Today bleed the clutch, start up and try the box in all gears before bolting up the TBox. The MSA coming from a wrecker is a bit of a Pig in a Poke so fingers crossed.
Isnt this fun. Spent all day trying to get the clutch to work. Pulled the pedal linkage to bits and welded on another inch to make sure I am getting max stroke of the master. The slave is not getting the movement enough to disengage the clutch even though both are NPR. The Chev and NPR are both 11" clutches but perhaps the Chev pressure plate needs more stroke. Tomorrow I will fit a Disco slave I have. Its 22mm against the NPR 25mm so will have a bit longer stroke. Cant think of anything else to do.
Smaller OD, longer stroke with same volume will give you more stroke for same travel at pedal won't it? Possibly move the piston retaining circlip out some with some machining of a new grove?.
Thanks. I didnt think anyone was reading this. Funny but neither the Disco or Isuzu slave have a circlip.
The Isuzu slave has adjustment to keep the bearing just off the diaphram fingers but the Rover ones dont which makes me think they are in contact and spinning all the time, and self adjusting.
So they rely on the fact that no one will drive it to the point that it will require to travel far enough to push the piston beyond it's range of travel to keep it in the cylinder. Sounds like an accountant saved 0.03c by not cutting a groove and supplying a circlip.
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