What Caused this Clutch Disaster?

Seeing as the adapter plate has split and therefore you have been running with misalignment, I'd be checking the Main Shaft very carefully. Mine failed completely but the interesting thing for you is that where the shaft broke it is very obvious it had been cracked for a long time before it finally let go. The colour of the shaft at the break point was different for half of the diameter. Check out my thread HERE. (For some reason I posted it in the S2a Forum instead of the Holden powered Series Forum)
Best of luck with it.
Cheers
John B

Given that your adapter plate has split, there is evidence of misalignment, I would be checking your engine and gearbox mounts for failure.

Re purchasing an adapter kit, there is no guarantee that a new kit will be any better in alignment than a second hand one. There are plenty of secondhand ones available, so if you don't take up Dave's offer place a wanted ad in the markets and attach it to a marketplace alert in the forums.

Then after all that, check the new setup with a dial indicator.

Diana

To paraphrase Paul Hogan: "That's not a set of mounts. THIS is a set of mounts!"

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The GB's are NOT a matched pair & I foolishly didn't label them. Are they are Left/Right on the original set-up?

But I LUUURRRVE the engine mounts! One of them is SOLID save for a token rubber pad.

I'm begining to think this conversion was done by a blacksmith!

I would think the time taken making the solid mount would outweigh the cost of buying a new one .......?

Four Wheel Drives in Blackburn have 4 mounts for $30 plus freight, I'm guessing the standard ones are OK with the Holden conversion.

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Colin

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Originally Posted by gromit

I would think the time taken making the solid mount would outweigh the cost of buying a new one .......?
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Colin

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This sort of a comment shows just how prosperous Australian society is today! But cost is not the only consideration. If you live out of town and need the vehicle back on the road today, and it is going to take a week to get a mail order one, and the town 100km away lost its Landrover dealer twenty years ago - fabricating a solid mount suddenly looks very sensible!

You have to remember that until the 1980s, most Landrover owners lived out of town, or at least in small rural communities.

John

Well I never thought of THAT angle! Well put sir!

Have no fear, John! I will put it thru the dishwasher and use it forever more as a paperweight/conversation starter on the coffee table.

She Who Must Be Obeyed will not object. In the past she has even put up with brake shoes in the oven full bore for a couple of hours to cook off the oil that had soaked in.

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Originally Posted by JDNSW

This sort of a comment shows just how prosperous Australian society is today! But cost is not the only consideration. If you live out of town and need the vehicle back on the road today, and it is going to take a week to get a mail order one, and the town 100km away lost its Landrover dealer twenty years ago - fabricating a solid mount suddenly looks very sensible!

You have to remember that until the 1980s, most Landrover owners lived out of town, or at least in small rural communities.

John

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John,

I take your point but wouldn't you then get a replacement mount at the next opportunity. Mind you like most jobs if it worked OK you'd probably forget about it.....

Just removed some very large spacers from under the gearbox mounts in my Series 2. Looks like as the mounts compressed the shaft for the rear PTO started to hit the chassis crossmember, solution....make up spacers.
New mounts fitted and spacers removed, everything lines up.


Colin