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deano266

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the reason the metallic rattle happens is due to the play in the shaft that goes in to the bushing. The shaft has a bit of slop in the gearbox, so as it is rotating its hitting and making that noise (or thats at least what he thinks it is). When the bearing is in place we will most definitely find out. In terms of release bearing i have got a proper mt75 release bearing so should be clipped in properly now

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OK, that theory has been advanced before.  I am still a bit sceptical as if that was the case I would expect the rattle to be there all the time, whereas we know it disappears the moment you press down on the clutch pedal and force the release bearing against the pressure plate.  Hence  my theory that it is related to the release bearing.  Unfortunately if your mechanic fixes the bush and clips the bearing into the release arm we will never know which of the two caused the rattle 😀  But regardless, it’s good news for you as you will have the quietest Superspec on the road 😀

I gather you posted a picture of the broken clutch on another site, can you post it on here ?  Or PM me a copy ?

Cheers

Al

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Okay, the pressure plate is from a rover 420 however the clutch material is where I'm struggling now.

The original was a borg and beck 53131 and struggling to find what that came out of. 

 

Searching for the exedy mzk 2100 I can't determine what that is from either

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Hi Deano

 There's a place in leeds not to far from me that recondtion's clutch plates and dmf i got my sierra plate reconed for £12 quid , They are a clutch specialist

The place is called CG Motorsport  opens 9am while 6pm mon to fri.

phone number  0113 2426359

 

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I've seen the pictures, it would need a miracle to recondition that plate😀.  

Dean: The code I passed you before (Exedy MZK2100) is the one that Chris used to replace his clutch plate.   Have you tried that ?  Euro Car Parts carry it, you should get a discount with the Club membership.

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3 hours ago, alanrichey said:

I've seen the pictures, it would need a miracle to recondition that plate😀.  

Dean: The code I passed you before (Exedy MZK2100) is the one that Chris used to replace his clutch plate.   Have you tried that ?  Euro Car Parts carry it, you should get a discount with the Club membership.

Yeah I tried but they couldn't find it on the system

And the rimmerbros one didn't go over the splines properly.

 

Fortunately I went to a local clutch place and he had a Ford spline 215mm clutch so got that.

 

In terms of the release bearing I asked the mechanic and he said it was clipped in as he had to unclip it out. He is going to modify the arm slightly to accommodate the mt75 release bearing from kitspares as we can get them easily

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@alanricheythe car has come back and I can confirm the 'superspec rattle' is no more. The mechanic said it was the spigot bearing as when he placed it in when determing the fit he could see it moving (as there was no bearing) along with all the scoring on the shaft and the bushing. Once placed in with a bearing there was very little to no movement and span cleanly in the bearing. 

 

I would definitely recommend doing it but due to the way the engine and gearbox come out I would only do it when gearbox is coming off anyway 

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Thanks for that, I hereby eat my words (although only if he didn't clip the release bearing into the release arm) 😀   But as you say, I will not replace it until something else forces me to drop the engine/gearbox.   It's been rattling for 25K miles and doesn't seem to be getting worse.

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