When Adjusting Your Clutch...

[MrA.Series]

When adjusting your clutch... ...while under the car with spanner in hand to tighten the adjusting nut on the push (pull?) rod, remove the rubber cover on the other side to the rubber gaiter on the gearbox and adjusted the nut acording to the position of the carbon thrust bearing (as seen through the cover) in relation to it's pressure pad. It should be very close to it but not touching it*! Roughly 1mm to 2mm distance should be between the bearing and it's plate when the pedal is not ingauged (sp?).

[*Below is a picture of what happens if your clutch is wrongly adjusted Yep, came off my car. The bearing must have been always touching as the engine ran. Worn right down to the metal casing (notice the shiney mark in the first photo) and has worn unevenly with the second picture showing the side of the bearing with the most of the bearing found to be left protruding above the level of the casing! ]



[Sorry about the scary weird hands. They don't normally look like that (well, covered in blood and grease is kinda normal, not the weird finger bending thing and spindly-ness though!), I suppose that's what you get for trying to use a scanner as a camara! ]

[rayofleamington]

On the 1098, from memory the correct adjustment should give about 3/4" free play on the pedal (a lot).
Firstly this ensures that the bearing isn't permanently loaded to the clutch, but also avoids overtravel of the clutch (the pedal moves further than the clutch will accept).

The bearing is a limited life part, as it is designed to wear, (rather like brake shoes). Therefore they need to be replaced on high mileage cars. The exact mileage depnds on how much use the clutch gets, but for those people who sit in traffic every day in gear with their foot on the clutch - this will cause premature failure....

[57traveller]

3/4" (20mm) is for the 948cc Ray. The 1098cc should be 1 3/8" to 1 1/2" (35 to 38mm) pedal free play.
I can never remember which is for which, recently adjusted mine so after looking up figures are still in short term memory.

[MrA.Series]

Yup, for a pedal movement of between 3/4" to 1", it's roughly between 1mm to 2mm distance between the bearing and plate. (Depending on the condition of your pedal linkage!)