[FC] Clutch linkage - early vs. late

[Bill Meglen]

Years ago in San Diego I replaced the clutch, pressure plate and throw 
out bearing on a 1961 Greenbrier. Put the power train back in found 
insufficient adjustment, clutch inoperative, pulled it out suspecting 
that the problem was with replaced parts, their combination or my 
assembly.  A SDCC club member had a cutaway  bellhousing to observe 
clutch action. Put it on the power train out of the vehicle it and the 
clutch seemed to function properly, Engine back in FC, same problem. 
Crawled underneath another FC in his "boneyard" and saw a simple "bell 
crank" connected to that clutch cable not present on my FC. Removed it 
put it on my FC (there was already a hole in the underbody for it, 
although it was not present in my pre-replacement functioning clutch 
mechanism.  Voila!  It worked. Never figured out which replaced clutch 
part changed the geometry (length of clutch cable) and don't recall the 
vintage of the donor FC.

Bill
On Oct 22, 2005, at 8:44 PM, Rad Davis wrote:

> I really didn't like the way the clutch worked.  As it happened, he 
> had the wrong mixture of clutch parts resulting in a too-long clutch 
> release travel, but I didn't know that until I took everything apart 
> and measured, eventually converting to the late car/late FC clutch, 
> release fork, and fork pivot ball.  I also didn't like that the clutch 
> cable and linkage stuck down so far.  I had to pick shreds of grass 
> out of the assembly on more than one occasion after parking on turf.