[DeTomaso] AAAGGGHHH!!!!!

[Göran Malmberg]

I use my lever mechanism for clutch engagement softness and not
for pressure comfort, but it is essentially the same technique. I dont
remember lever ratio of the original, but in my case it is essential
that the most powerful-longest pedal travel comes in at engagement.
To do so it is VERY important that the knee of the lever arms is
in the right possition to the other pivot centres.
If you look at the thing you will find out that the knee is greatley 
altering
its possition from different pushrod length, it is a question of mm:s in
my case. As for a stock unit it is not that important as there are not
any special point of travel that are of interest. But pushrod length
still makes a big difference in function.
Goran

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Charles Engles" <cengles at cox.net>
To: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
Cc: <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 3:00 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] AAAGGGHHH!!!!!


> Dear Mike,
>
>
>                You wrote in the earlier victorious post that after all the
> McGyver heroics, you persevered and were rewarded with the prize of 
> improved
> clutch reduction and improved enjoyment of ownership-------and now you 
> find
> out that it wasn't the right fix?     Unbeliveable.   (Comical,
> but.........)
>
>                 I am interested to hear how your clutch works when it is
> fixed properly.
>
>                 I usually accomplish  feats such as your ill-fated clutch
> project  all by myself without the assistance of a backward diagram.
> Perhaps with some more experience, you , too, will be able to complete
> projects without pictures.........    ;-)
>
>
>
>                            Warmest regards,  Chuck Engles
>
>
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <MikeLDrew at aol.com>
> To: <detomaso at realbig.com>
> Sent: Tuesday, July 29, 2008 6:49 PM
> Subject: [DeTomaso] AAAGGGHHH!!!!!
>
>
>> Hi guys,
>>
>> So, at about noon today, I got a phone call from Dennis Quella on my cell
>> phone.
>>
>> "Yeah, about that diagram that Becky sent to you with the clutch effort
>> reduction linkage drawing?   I had given the piece to her and told her
>> what to do
>> with it, but she flipped it over backwards before she traced it and sent
>> it to
>> you.   So, that drawing is actually backwards, the thing needs to be
>> pointed
>> the other way."
>>
>> Wait, you mean that I spent ten hours of my life dinking around with the
>> car
>> to flip this stupid thing around, when it was right the whole time, and
>> all I
>> had to was shorten the pushrod to the appropriate length and my clutch
>> would
>> have been perfect?   And now the piece is installed backwards, so I have
>> to
>> tear it all apart again and flip it back around to the way it was
>> originally?
>>
>> AAAGGHHH!!!!!!!!
>>
>> But, Kudos to Dennis for following up afterwards, figuring out her goof,
>> and
>> taking the time to dig up my phone number and call me right away to clue
>> me in
>> to the problem.
>>
>> So, now I know what I'll be doing with my life tomorrow morning....
>>
>> Sigh....
>>
>> Mike
>>
>>
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