[DeTomaso] clutch effort - hydrovac

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Are those units designed to displace the amount of fluid that one has to move in one stroke in a clutch application?

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Thomas Tornblom" <Thomas.Tornblom at hax.se>
To: "Barry Seib" <oldwheel at mts.net>
Cc: "DetomasoList" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, January 01, 2010 6:57 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] clutch effort - hydrovac


> Some mid 60:s, pre B20, Volvo Amazon and P1800 had these. Likely donors 
> would be 1967-1968,
> 
> They appear to be Girling Mk2B units, also available on some British 
> cars of similar age.
> 
> Thomas
> 
> 
> Barry Seib skrev:
>> Slow on this list lately anyway ...
>> 
>> Been nosing around on the net and dreaming about ways to reduce the clutch
>> effort in a Pantera. I know Ron has applied the Mitsubishi 3000GT unit
>> successfully, but it involves some heavy mods on the pedal assembly. I
>> remember my old Studebaker Hawk used a remote vaccuum booster that was not
>> linked to the pedal mechanically, but used a remote vacuum diaphragm unit to
>> multiply pressure as fed to it from the standard master cyl. I gather it was
>> also used in some trucks and 50s chevys. I think the term is hydrovac and
>> I'm wondering if any intrepid Pantera owner has used a setup like this to
>> ease the clutch? It would only require mounting and hose connections and
>> wouldn't need to be linked to the clutch pedal.
>> 
>> http://vehiclesofvictory.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/chevy-hydrovac1.jpg
>> 
>> 
>> Happy New Year to you all from Canada ! ( -31C here tonight)
>> 
>> Barry
>> 
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