[DeTomaso] McLeod hydraulic throw out

[Will Kooiman]

Wow.

I have one in my Cobra, and so far it has worked perfectly.

My Cobra came with an external slave from a Volvo that was readily
available 20 years ago, but is now unobtanium.  Rather than building a new
bracket for a different slave, I switched to a McLeod slave.

At any rate, as I said, it has worked perfectly - so far.

--
Will





On 9/16/16 3:35 PM, "Larry Finch via DeTomaso"
<detomaso at server.detomasolist.com> wrote:

>Cullen,
>
>2511 came equipped with one of those from Dennis when I purchased it in
>2002. Since then I have rebuilt the unit twice (three?) and most recently
>did so using what I believe to be their current offering. I spoke with
>and ordered directly from McLeod.
>
>My opinion, in brief, is a very simple "NO!!"
>
>The current offering was shipped to me with an incorrect input snout
>spacer (I solved that by using the old spacer which luckily I still had
>on hand), and the stainless steel input line, due to its 90° fitting
>where one should have used a 45° fitting, twisted itself, unseen of
>course, within the bell housing when it was connected to the hard line
>attached to the chassis rails. Even stainless steel lines don't hold up
>very long against grinding by a pressure plate.
>
>The stainless steel bleed line is about 4 inches too long, sticking
>outside the bell housing in a terrible display of ugly.
>
>Finally, my last experience started with me ordering the same rebuild kit
>I had previously used, using the same number off of the previous invoice.
>What I received from them was the rebuild kit for the current unit which
>uses an entirely different set of all rings. I ultimately determined that
>for all three generations of their hydraulic bearing McLeod has used
>exactly the same rebuild kit part number. They added no suffix such as a
>­ A or a ­B which to me seems indicative of a problem within the company.
>No, they no longer support a rebuild kit for the first two generations.
>
>While you have some experience in using one of these previously, the task
>of establishing proper free play and clearances is quite exacting and
>unforgiving. If you get it wrong there is nothing left to do but pull the
>transaxle and start all over again.
>
>The unit I have is now adjusted for the factory shortcomings and as has
>been my experience for over 50,000 miles, the system works just fine.
>Dennis however no longer recommends their installation and based on my
>experience I would not encourage any other owners to venture down that
>road for themselves.
>
>Feel free to reach out to me off-line or by phone for more of the gory
>details.
>
>Larry
>
>Sent from me using a magic, handheld electronic gizmo.
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