Hydraulic Clutch

hipo_p51_old · February 10, 2011 at 1:30 AM

sand the starter and the backing plate hole down. a little elbow grease and patience should do the trick. this is what i would try first.

iowa_old · February 10, 2011 at 8:01 AM

thats kinda what i figured

these plates are stamped out?

or laser cut?

and just need a little TLC

to what torque

does one tighten the Bell H to engine bolts?

thanks

iowa

Edited by - iowa on 02/10/2011 08:05:33

hipo_p51_old · February 10, 2011 at 1:17 PM

laser cut? if you said that in 1966, they would have said you saw Star Trek the other night.

stamped out i would imagine.

As far as the torques go, no shop manual with me right now. I am sure someone will chime in with that info for you soon.

iowa_old · February 10, 2011 at 2:49 PM

after doing some checking

ford does make two sizes of starters

on one the outer flange is 4.084

and the other one is 4.130

i need the smaller one

but was sold the larger one by napa!!

they are going to check it out and let me

know why this happened,

and if i got the wrong one,

they will swap with me.

in looking at the teeth on the larger one,

i see where the starter teeth were worn

about 1/8" in

the gear definitely set back to far

and was not getting a good bite on the FW teeth

iowa

iowa_old · February 15, 2011 at 6:50 AM

here is a picture of the speedo gear

that came out of my son's '66

(sorry to post about a non hipo car,

but a lot of what we're doing to it

pertains to the hipo's also)

the new gears from Modern Driveline

appear to have too few (large)teeth

which are going R handed.

our's appearing to have 19 teeth

and going L handed.

or is it so worn that it only appears to be L handed?

my Q is:

why would there be R and L handed threads?

iowa

[Blocked Image: http://www.surfacezero.com/g503/data/500/medium/2011_02_13_002_new_speedo_gears.jpg]

Edited by - iowa on 02/15/2011 06:51:12

CharlesTurner · February 15, 2011 at 7:50 AM

Automatics and 3 speed transmissions use the different gears. I don't remember off-hand which get LH or RH.

iowa_old · February 15, 2011 at 8:14 AM

a certain transmission

would ONLY be R or L handed?

one couldn't put a L handed gear

in a R handed transmission?

but the cable will always turn one direction?

crazy Q's!!

iowa

RalphJr · February 15, 2011 at 8:35 AM

The direction of the gear teeth depends upon which side of the transmission the gear/cable goes in.

3 speed and autos have the cable on one side - toploaders on the other - don't remember which.

BUT don't get them confused!!! The gear on the tail shaft of the tranny is soft plastic too - if you use the wrong gear and chew up both it is a PAIN to fix.

C6ZZKGT · February 15, 2011 at 9:45 AM Official Post

4 speeds use the left hand helix driven gears as the speedometer cable attaches to the passenger side of the transmission. The right hand helix is for 3 speeds and automatic transmissions.

-Fred-

iowa_old · February 15, 2011 at 12:43 PM

the older gear above came out of the 3 spd

and it looks like a L handed one

what do you think?

are the teeth just twisted wrong?

iowa

zray · February 15, 2011 at 3:15 PM

left handed is used in 4 speeds. the cable goes in the passenger side of the transmission.

the 2 gears on the right are not left handed. don't use them in a 4 speed

3 speed transmissions & T-5's and automatics with the cable going in on the driver side use the right handed gear.

Z.

Edited by - zrayrichter on 02/15/2011 15:15:42

iowa_old · February 27, 2011 at 7:56 AM

here is a pretty good link on VMF

for Hydraulic Clutch's

iowa

http://forums.vintage-mustang.com/vintage-mustan…tch-set-up.html

iowa_old · March 2, 2011 at 8:14 AM

i saw it

we decided not to go w/the hydraulic clutch

right now we are using a long heavy spring

that attaches to the clutch release lever

and goes up to the front suspension arm

takes a very strong leg to push the clutch down

iowa

iowa_old · April 9, 2011 at 6:49 AM

we have noticed that the new clutch

makes the clutch pedal pretty hard to depress

maybe this is our imagination

but one has to be careful not to let

it 'suddenly' come up

and kill the engine because of this

is this normal with a new clutch plate

and will it became less so with usage?

thanks

iowa

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