Thanks for the detailed info. I've a couple newbie questions;
Are the shifter arms always lengthened when a shift grinds or do I experiment with one turn forward, two back until it shifts smooth?
Usually you make the shift rod a touch longer, so the syncro gets all the way engaged with the gear to slow it down.
The clutch is a Borg and Beck from Brewer's. I'm pretty sure it had a spring clip mounting the T O bearing to the fork, but not sure if there was anything between the two.
I was talking about the clutch disc, and the thin, wave spring that is between the two frictions on the disc. So, if you grabbed your disc and looked at it 90 degrees from the way it fits in the car, you can see that little spring in between the two frictions. If you’re not sure it’s there or not, take your fingers and squeeze the disc together. If it compresses at all, there is that spring in there. If it doesn’t compress, it’s not there. If it is there, you’ll need more plate departure (I’m really meaning air gap between the disc and the flywheel...I learned that term (plate departure) in 1980 and I still use it, but it means the same thing as air gap.
What kind shop does pressure plate finger height adjustments? My friendly machine shop?
If you live in or near a big city, there should be some kind of specialty shop that just does friction stuff. Like clutches, brakes and junk like that. They usually have stuff for all kinds of vehicles, clear up to over the road trucks, earth moving junk and anything that uses brakes and/or clutches. They can easily raise the finger height .100 for you.
I did use 180 emery cloth on each synchro mating surface and confirmed I couldn't turn the synchro under a hand pressed fit with my whimpey grip.
Hopefully you didn’t take enough off the syncro to change the diameter. I doubt you did, but if you had the syncro in a lathe and spun it up...you could effectively change the ID of the syncro enough that it’s not getting a good grip on the gear.
I'll make the rod adjustments when I get back under to replace some front end rubber and shocks, and report back.
Thanks again!!
