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

[Cullen1972]

Hi Will,

It's a 3 finger style original clutch from zoom, with original style fork, not the 5,0 style. This one pulls from the rear of the car, or push from the front. I'm running a wilwood style hydraulic slave that actuates the arm.  

The pivot ball is more of an L bracket woth two bolts fastens to the bellhousing. The pivot portion of it is a plate that sits in a depression on the inside if the clutch arm. It uses a small retainer spring to keep tension i suppose, Although it seems like a trivial component in person. 

Thank you for your thoughts on it! 


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On Apr 29, 2011, at 8:27 PM, "Will Kooiman" <wkooiman at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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? 
> 
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> 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.
> 
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> 
> What application or description would lead me towards a long style throw out
> bearing?
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> Hope I'm making sense.ugh. 
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> Thanks!!
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> Cullen
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