clutch aligment

[sujitroy]

Can I use a spare input shaft to help align the clutch to the fly wheel?

[flying farmer]

Can I use a spare input shaft to help align the clutch to the fly wheel?

Probably the best tool available!

I have also used the input shaft from a Dolomite Sprint simply because I have one spare. The Sprint input shaft is smaller, but the outside diameter of the splines on the shaft is a good match for the inside diameter of the splines on the clutch plate.

[richardthestag]

luxury if you have a spare input shaft.

replace the brass spigot bush in the crank while it is apart, they are a consumable and unless you know how many miles your has done it makes sense to change it.

For those who do not have the luxury of a spare input shaft I found that a couple of 1/2" sockets and some threaded bar was almost as good

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As a habit I never fully tighten the clutch cover plate 1st time round. nip it up just enough that the clutch plate stays put, offer up the gearbox, when the splines engine, carefully remove, nip up the clutch cover bolts, making sure that the stag items do not bottom out in the flywheel and then refit the gearbox.

with an input shaft handy you shouldn't need to faff around like that though

[jakesmig]

Easiest way I find is to assemble the plate and pressure plate finger tight on the flywheel and manipulate the clutch plate until its edge sits the same distance all round the pressure plate edge, you can usually see this distance easily in three places round the pressure plate. Quicker and less fuss, especially where alignment tools have 'tolerances' and you have to guess it is in square.

I've always done it that way and have never missed, it saves trying to align the alignment tool properly.

John

[trunt]

Easiest way I find is to assemble the plate and pressure plate finger tight on the flywheel and manipulate the clutch plate until its edge sits the same distance all round the pressure plate edge, you can usually see this distance easily in three places round the pressure plate. Quicker and less fuss, especially where alignment tools have 'tolerances' and you have to guess it is in square.

I've always done it that way and have never missed, it saves trying to align the alignment tool properly.

John

I remember that.. That's how I used to do it before I got minted and had spare cash for "fancy tools"

I used to get an appropriate sized allen key to use as a gauge for the gap between pressure plate and clutch plate.

[sujitroy]

The shaft is not really spare. It's s out of a non OD box which I plan to convert to OD in the near distant future.
Sujit