"R. N. Robinson" wrote in
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"R Strong" wrote in message
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On Mon, 17 Nov 2003 11:32:07 +0000 (UTC), "George Weatherley"
wrote:

Thanks gents for your sugestions, i got right under the car on saturday
and
only then did i notice one of the bushes on the gearbox steady was
round
the
wrong way and the ment the clamp that holds it was round the wrong way
so
it
was not holding it much at all there i also looked at the slave
cylinder
that had looked perfect when i looked before but i found the 2 bolts
were
not even finger tight alowing it to move as it was used, since talking
the
car on a couple years ago i have found loads of lose stuff i have since
sepnt alot of time going round check everything!! i have only had time
to
go
round the block in it the clutch does seam smoother but there is still
a
bit
of noise when i press the pedal and relese it but it all seams more
steady
when pulling away i think if it can get round to next spring i will
whip
the
clutch out and have the flywheel checked as per your susgestions cause
i
work outside the weather is abit ruff now to start doing that.
Thanks again guys I will let you know the outcome.
George

Sounds like a case of finger-tight restoration to me!


Handy tip coming up . . .

If you are not going to tighten something properly straight away, never
ever
leave it finger-tight, always leave it obviously loose. Otherwise you or
somebody else will assume it has been properly tightened when it hasn't.

BTDT :-(

Ron Robinson


Ron,
I think who ever had done work on my car in the past had got a really bad
memory everything I touched was lose the bumpers, link pins, 1 shock
absorber the wipes stopped working the second day I had it due to were the
cable goes in at the top being lose and coming out I had checked all the
safety items when I first realised that the whole car was half un bolted but
must of missed the slave cylinder.
George