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- From: pshyvers@pyrnova.mis.pyramid.com (Peter Shyvers)
- Newsgroups: rec.autos.tech
- Subject: Re: Clutch replacement
- Message-ID: <182789@pyramid.pyramid.com>
- Date: 24 Jul 92 08:27:14 GMT
- Sender: news@pyramid.pyramid.com
- Reply-To: pshyvers@pyrnova.pyramid.com (Peter Shyvers)
- Organization: Pyramid Technology Corp., Mountain View, CA
- Lines: 19
- Originator: daemon@sword.eng.pyramid.com
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- In article <711939646.F00001@blkcat.UUCP> Frank.Mallory@f417.n109.z1.fidonet.org (Frank Mallory) writes:
- >
- >by hex-head bolts that fasten from INSIDE the bell housing. You can of course
- >use the transmission front shaft as an alignment tool (altho it is not
- >particualarly convenient to do so, and plastic alignment tools and used
- >transmission shafts are so available and cheap that it is hardly worth the
- >effort). Once the driven plate is aligned and torqued down, you might as well
-
- I hope by "effort" you mean supporting the tranny so that it NEVER, repeat,
- NEVER hangs by the input shaft. It's surprising just how much leverage the
- transmission has on the shaft, and how little a bend in the shaft translates
- into beaucoup vibration.
-
- >tighten the tranny to the bell housing and slip the whole assembly into
- >position; you might have to put the tranny in gear and turn the output flange in
- >order to get the splines lined up right.
- >
-
- Right!
-