Recognising a clutch!

Post by **Rasputin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 6:34 pm

Can anyone tell me how to recognise a Morris Minor clutch,as I bought a NOS one a few years ago ,just in case! Unfortunately I have never seen one in the flesh ,so to speak and I am not entirely sure now that it is from a Minor as I bought from a boot sale! It looks very similar to the pictures in the workshop manual.It is Borg and Beck and the pressure springs are orange and the anti rattle springs are green if that`s any help?

Post by **Cam** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 8:38 pm

Try the centre on the end of a Minor gearbox to see if it fits. Also, if the friction material sandwiches between the clutch cover and flywheel then it will work with a Minor! It should be 7 1/4" diameter for a 1098 or 6 1/4" for all other Minors.

Take a picture and post in on here and we can tell you if it looks like a Minor one too! (mind you, they all look very similar).

A 1098 clutch kit looks like this:

All the others look like this:

Post by **Rasputin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:31 pm

I don`t have a spare gearbox to try it on .It is indeed 7 1/4inches and looks very much like the 1098cc one.The friction material is in a continuous circle and not in segments like the photo.I will take a photo tomorrow but I don`t know how to put it on here,if I could e-mail it to some kind person perhaps they could put it on.

Post by **bmcecosse** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 9:54 pm

The friction there is continuous - it's just got grooves cut in it.

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:39 pm

Rasputin, mail it to me and I'll post it. Just going to try and get a magic email button down below

Post by **bigginger** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:47 pm

Nah, can't do it

but it's my user name at my user name dot com

Post by **Cam** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 2:10 am

You have a magic email button BigG.

Rasputin,
If the clutch has 10 splines and measures correctly then the chances are that it's a Minor one. Some clutch plates have a continuous lining material and some have raised sections like the one in the picture.

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:46 pm

Do I? I guess it cleverly doesn't show it for me, 'cos it thinks I wouldn't want to mail myself...

Pics follow shortly - looks good to me.

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 1:54 pm

Here it is then...

Post by **Cam** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:23 pm

Well, I don't know about you guys, but that looks pretty 1098 Minor to me!

Post by **bigginger** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:32 pm

Me too.

Post by **Cam** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 4:45 pm

In fact the driven plate looks identical to the one I took out of my 4 door when it was a 1098.

Post by **Rasputin** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 5:18 pm

The clutch has indeed got 10 splines! Thanks to Cam and Big G for Identifying it .I would hate to think I wasted the £10 that I spent on it!

Post by **rayofleamington** » Sun Oct 23, 2005 11:46 pm

Thanks for the pics guys - it'll remind me what a clutch 'should' look like when I take Wilberforce to bits next weekend!!:lol:
The clutch adjustment made last weekend turns out to have been needed because something nasty was underfoot

and whatever was self destructing within the bell housing has completed its self destruction!

[No amount of adjustment made any difference (not even bodging a bigger bellhousing hole!) and having a car that won't get into gear 180 miles from home is a bit of a pain]