Reply to "McLEOD HYDRAULIC CLUTCH CONVERSION"

I haven’t used that eBay kit but unless I overlooked it, there is a critical part missing from the pictures in that eBay auction and it’s the spacer that slides on the ZF input shaft collar between the McLeod TOB and the ZF. It is necessary to position the initial installed height of the clutch. I have a healthy skepticism of throw together kits comprised of parts from different manufacturers, especially on eBay. That Wilwood master cylinder and McLeod TOB need to have been selected to provide the correct stroke for both the Pantera pedal ratio and the TOB. This is a good reason to buy from a Pantera vendor that has matched the parts correctly.

For example, I bought McLeod’s so-called “Pantera Kit” throw out bearing kit for use with one of their Street Twin clutches figuring I’d save myself some time. The McLeod throw out bearing (TOB) and actuator is a nice piece as you can see in Larry’s post at the link in the post above. However, I was not at all impressed with McLeods “Pantera Kit”. Just to be sure, I even made a preemptive call and spoke with their tech department who assured me they were familiar with the differences for a ZF installation versus a typical manual tranny……..I can assure you they were not. Of all the possible interface dimensions, they got one correct and the rest wrong. The one that was correct was the ID of the TOB which did fit the ZF input shaft collar. One would think a company like McLeod could do better. Also, there’s absolutely no way I would have followed what McLeod recommended for installation.

I have a detailed 20 page pdf “how to” describing what I did to install the McLeod TOB. It’s only 2.3MB but I don’t have a place to host it at the moment. If someone wants to do so and post a link, I will send them the file if they will post the link here.

Best,
K