[DeTomaso] what is the purpose of the long throw clutch slave?

Ken Green kenn_green at yahoo.com
Sun May 13 01:24:56 EDT 2012


The increase in throw should be proportional to the decrease in piston bore area.  I think someone said there was about 1 15% increase in throw?  You could get the same effect using a larger dia master cylinder, for example, a 13/16 would give about 17% greater throw and pedal effort.
 
Ken

From: Pantdino <pantdino at aol.com>
To: MikeLDrew at aol.com; detomaso at realbig.com 
Sent: Saturday, May 12, 2012 10:07 PM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] what is the purpose of the long throw clutch slave?


And the effort will be correspondingly higher, no?
What is the diameter of the long throw cylinder?



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Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] what is the purpose of the long throw clutch slave?



In a message dated 5/12/12 20 32 3, pantdino at aol.com writes:




what is the purpose of the long throw clutch slave?
And is the actual throw longer, or is the housing just longer so the piston is closer to the clutch crank when fully compressed?

X amount of pedal travel with a given diameter master piston will only move a given amount of fluid, so the long throw slave must also increase total clutch pedal travel, no?


what is the purpose of the long throw clutch slave?
And is the actual throw longer, or is the housing just longer so the piston is closer to the clutch crank when fully compressed?

X amount of pedal travel with a given diameter master piston will only move a given amount of fluid, so the long throw slave must also increase total clutch pedal travel, no?


>>>No.

A long-throw slave cylinder has a smaller piston diameter than stock.  So for a given amount of fluid flow (which is dictated by the master cylinder which in turn is driven by the clutch pedal), you get more displacement of the slave piston, and thus greater clutch disengagement.

Mike 
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