84 XR7 clutch help

March 13, 2010, 02:59:31 PM

Stepped on the petal to start it and

broke the link between the clutch fork and arm on the bell housing.

Now I'm thinking that the spacer someone put on there might have been why the clutch didn't seem to disengage all the way in the first place.

So I go out to the garage and dig down to the deepest end of my old parts pile and find the bell housing from my 86 TC and c00ch the piece I broke aswell as a good shift fork boot (good thing I kept these parts around for 6 years!)

I put it back together, did the 'clutch petal adjustment' procedure, fired up the car and now it wont disengage enough to get it in gear, I had to push it through the floorboards before to get it in gear, now even that doesn't work. :disappoin Could it be that my cable is stretched out that much? I'm gonna try a u-bolt style cable clamp to take up some slack, what else could be wrong here?

Thanks
Scott

EDIT: Well after looking at it I gave up on the cable clamp idea and instead I shimmed the cable out from the bell housing with four 16 gauge steel shim washers. Seems better now, did a short run around the neighborhood and it still slips a bit in 4th under boost right around 4-4200 rpm but will actually light them up in first no problem now, hopefully theres just a bit of glazing on the clutch that'll wear off... or at least give me enough time to round up a new clutch and get it in. Temporary fix but it'll work!

84 XR7 clutch help

Reply #1 – March 13, 2010, 04:07:17 PM

that dogbone cable :flame:
do yourself a favor and ditch that for a bolt and some washers.
can you still get the clutch cable for those?
i know the thing the pin/clevis goes on is no longer available.
im at a loss as to why the spacer was on there.