[DeTomaso] NPC - need help with throwout bearing on a 4 speedtoploader

[Will Kooiman]

Need more info.

Are you running the original style clutch linkage with z-bar/bell crank/push
or do you have a 5.0 pull style with the ball on the end of the clutch fork?

I ran a Lakewood scattershield in my FE Mustang with the original style
clutch linkage.  I also ran a dual friction diaphragm clutch.  It took the
same throwout bearing and everything else.  I had to remove the helper
spring from the clutch pedal, though.  Otherwise, the pedal would go to the
floor with the much lower pressure with a diaphragm.

My point is I doubt you're having a problem due to the scattershield.
Without seeing it, it sounds like you have the wrong clutch fork.

-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Cullen McCann
Sent: Friday, April 29, 2011 4:10 PM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] NPC - need help with throwout bearing on a 4
speedtoploader

Good afternoon friends of the list.this is not specifically Pantera related
but I suppose it could close. I am running a 4 speed toploader ford behind a
351 Windsor based motor in another project.and I installed the clutch and
Lakewood scattershield, etc..with the clutch fork, and the "throw" or
distance that the fork can disengage the clutch is WAY to short.it would
need to move a lot farther two disengage the clutch and before It can, it
bottoms out against the opening of the scattershield. I didn't know it at
the time but I understand now that there are two different sizes of throw
out bearing depths? 

 

I think I have the short bearing ( and it was short, about the depth of a
hockey puck..or an inch or less..) the geometry of what I'm looking at
suggests it behave this way.

 

What application or description would lead me towards a long style throw out
bearing?

 

Hope I'm making sense.ugh. 

 

Thanks!!

 

Cullen

 

 

 

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