Fork too far back?
What you just said here about the bigger flywheel and thus bigger Bell set off a whole cascade of thoughts. I’m the 3rd owner of this car in the past 10 years that has been trying to solve this clutch issue. I just had an ah-ha! moment. All along we had been trying to retro-fit the OD 833 to the slant.
Now, all of a sudden I don’t think it’s an overdrive. ALL OD’s have the one lever flipped, correct? Well look at mine. I think the original swapper either didn’t know what to look for or he was lied to on what it was. I’ve only had the car for 5 days and think I just solved a 10 year long problem.
SO... I think all I need is the standard 9.5” bell fork from brewers.
The fork I have in there measure just shy of 11”. The stock slant fork they list is 10.5” and when you look at the photos of both the standard slant fork has a much steeper/higher finger ridge for the TOB. That would push the TOB closer to the PP at rest... hopefully solving my problem. That would also explain why the “retro fit” Z bar that I have that is for swapping in the bigger bell requires almost 1.5” spacers on the bell pivot bracket. The z bar I have is 6.5” but the stock slant 8” one looks like it would fit right in not using my spacers. (The spacers were in the car when I got it... I’m just trying to sort out what’s what before throwing a bunch of money at parts not being sure they will be correct.
The question of the day, is it possible to get the fork off and back onto the TOB with the tranny still in the car just I’m using the inspection opening and the fork opening???
What you just said here about the bigger flywheel and thus bigger Bell set off a whole cascade of thoughts. I’m the 3rd owner of this car in the past 10 years that has been trying to solve this clutch issue. I just had an ah-ha! moment. All along we had been trying to retro-fit the OD 833 to the slant.
Now, all of a sudden I don’t think it’s an overdrive. ALL OD’s have the one lever flipped, correct? Well look at mine. I think the original swapper either didn’t know what to look for or he was lied to on what it was. I’ve only had the car for 5 days and think I just solved a 10 year long problem.
SO... I think all I need is the standard 9.5” bell fork from brewers.
The fork I have in there measure just shy of 11”. The stock slant fork they list is 10.5” and when you look at the photos of both the standard slant fork has a much steeper/higher finger ridge for the TOB. That would push the TOB closer to the PP at rest... hopefully solving my problem. That would also explain why the “retro fit” Z bar that I have that is for swapping in the bigger bell requires almost 1.5” spacers on the bell pivot bracket. The z bar I have is 6.5” but the stock slant 8” one looks like it would fit right in not using my spacers. (The spacers were in the car when I got it... I’m just trying to sort out what’s what before throwing a bunch of money at parts not being sure they will be correct.
The question of the day, is it possible to get the fork off and back onto the TOB with the tranny still in the car just I’m using the inspection opening and the fork opening???
