heavy Duty clutch release arm

[dursleyman]

Just noticed Rimmers are selling a heady duty clutch release arm and a kit for the Land Rover which might be OK for our cars. Anyone else seen these or tired one? They are listed as a Britpart product and their site lists them for Defenders, Discovery and Range Rover Classic.



Russ

1981 TR7 Sprint DHC
Dursley
UK

http://tr7russ.blogspot.co.uk/

[Cobber]

Looks like a standard arm with a strip of flat bar welded across the back of the pivot socket. That would be easy enough to do to a standard arm.

"Keep calm, relax, focus on the problem & PULL THE BLOODY TRIGGER"

80'Triumph TR7, 73'Land Rover (Ford 351. V8),
'89 Ford Fairlane
'98 MG-F, 69'Ford F250.

[dursleyman]

Agreed that is exactly what it looks like but the other bits look interesting as well. Those nicely shaped slipper blocks would be much easier than trying to get our square ones onto the release bearing.
Also interesting that they market them to the Land Rover lot but not the TR7/8 (yet).

[busheytrader]

The welded on strap is a great idea. But won't the fulcrum pin still wear out the socket in the arm?

Instead of the pin punching its way through the arm, it'll wear through to the strap. IMHO, the clutch arm won't fail dramatically like the original (which happened to me) but will still need to be swapped out when the action gets rough. What do you reckon?

Adam



TR7 V8 DHC Jaguar Solent Blue. 9.35cr Range Rover V8, Holley 390cfm, JWR Dual Port, 214 Cam, Lumention, Tubular Manifolds, S/S Single Pipe Exh, 3.08 Rear, 200lb Spax & PolyBushes all round, Anti- Dive, Strut-Top Roller Bearings, Capri Vented Discs & Calipers, Braided Hoses, 4 Speed Rear Cylinders, Uprated Master Cylinder & Servo, AT 14" 5 Spokes or Maestro Turbo 15" Alloys, Cruise Lights, S/S Heater Pipes, Replacement Fuel Tank. No Door Stickers. Mine since July 1986, V8 from 1991 courtesy of S&S V8 conversion kit (built not bought) and big brake kit.

[Odd]

My view as well - it will fail, but you'll be able to limp home.
Sort of like the injection, it will get you home in limp home mode
but you'll hate the fuel consumption...

[FI Spyder]

By the time it wears through the strap it will be 2099 and the car will have 550,000 miles on it. Mine has 104,000 miles when I did the clutch two years ago and it only had a little wear.

- - -TR7 Spider - - - 1978 Spitfire- - - - 1976 Spitfire - - 1988 Tercel 4X4 - Kali on Integra - 1991 Integra - Yellow TCT

[busheytrader]

The fulcrum pin wore through mine in less than 60,000 miles when it was a daily driver. It had worked all its life in London's suburbia so the clutch was probably worked harder than most.