Re: Clutch

[Brian Arnett <arnetb@domain.elided>]

Mike-

I ran into a similar problem in my '69 800.  I had an open cover 
pressure plate and I replaced it with NAPA's match up which was a closed 
cover.  I put this clutch on my engine and installed the engine, hooked 
everything up (just had rebuilt it..) and I couldn't adjust the clutch 
to where it would release at all.  

Pulled the engine again (took an hour or so...), took the pressure plate 
off and called about 15 states before I could find one of the open faced 
ones.  So I put this on and put it in and the same thing happened.  This 
time it was fixable, though.  There were three retaining clips which 
were compressing the springs.  I released these clips (through the 
flywheel cover) and then backed off some bolts which went through the 
springs with an open end wrench.  This did the trick, cause the fingers 
moved right out to meet hte bearing.  Course, I couldn't let them all 
out the same amount (there is a pretty tight tolerance on the relative 
distance between the three bolts..) so I have a bit of chatter now.  
Works, though.

I'm not sure what you mean by a multi lever diaphram, but I think the 
three lever release is what mine takes.  I have the closed face 10 inch 
pressure plate that NAPA gave me (they refunded my money and let me keep 
the plate...) Lemme know if you want it (it's brand new.)

Brian 

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