Do I need to lubricate?

[samco]

<font color="blue"><font face="Comic Sans MS">I am the point where I am about to refit the engine and gearbox to my restored body but I need a question answered. Upon inspection I found that the clutch fork had a split in it where it sat over the pivot ball in the bell housing on my 5 speed gearbox. Apparently this is a common fault on these gearboxes so I ordered a new onw one which arrived today. Should I lubricate this ball and socket arrangement to prevent premature wear with some form of grease? My concern is that I can find no mention of lubrication in the BL manual and commen sence says to me that as the bell housing will be full of clutch dust, will grease or oil attract the clutch dust and accelerate the wear of the clutch fork socket, or should I leave it dry? </font id="Comic Sans MS"> </font id="blue">

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[FI Spyder]

Just a thought. You could spray it with graphite. The propelant will evaporate leaving just the graphite to lube the parts. Clutch dust wouldn't stick to graphite any more than bare metal.

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[busheytrader]

Hi,

The pivot ball forcing it's way through the clutch fork prompted my V8 conversion 17 years ago. It looked like the pin had part ground its way through / part stretched the fork material until it was too thin and gave up.

I put a small dap of copperease on the new pin and fork and it still works fine and smooth. I was worried about clutch dust gumming it up so made sure there wasn't any surplus.

Copperease was used on all the fixings where I could during the V8 conversion and nothing has seized since.

Cheers,

Adam