Just put a new clutch in the CJ (and by the way, found the 3 speed transmission on the CJ7 to be very heavy...
) and have botched it...
Basically, the clutch no longer disengages properly even on full adjustment. The "normal" amount of pedal movement achieves nothing at all but if you actually squash it the last inch to the floor (which requires a great deal of effort...) it does eventually disengage.
After much swearing etc. I think the answer is that I have fitted a "wrong" clutch release fork. This is particularly annoying as:
a. I did not actually need to change the damn fork in the first place and
b. If I had compared the new and old side by side I would have seen they were slightly different
This is on the basis of looking into the bell housing "in-situ" (is that how you spell "in-situ"?? - I don't think I have ever written that down before...) through the lever hole, so not a perfect view.
What appears to be happening "on the last inch" is that as the fork pivots on its nice new ball bearing it eventually fouls the back of the access port and starts levering on the side of the bellhousing itself, which is where it is getting the extra reach from.
Anybody else come across this? I have not yet taken the transmission out again, but assuming the above description is correct, what fork have I actually put in there?
John
