Reply to "McLEOD HYDRAULIC CLUTCH CONVERSION"

The referenced previous thread will show I have previously posted to this issue.

In a nutshell I would advise you to avoid using an internal hydraulic throw out bearing.

The first time I had to address the failed o-rings in my unit, I learned that there had been an upgrade to the bearing that required a new bearing carrier piece. I obtained those pieces and a rebuild kit and was back on the road.

A couple years ago I once again had the clutch out of my car and did a preemptive rebuild of the hydraulic slave. I ordered the same rebuild kit as I previously had used and received a collection of O-rings that was nowhere close to the O-rings required.

After a amazingly ridiculous amount of research and phone calls I learned that McLeod had retained the same rebuild kit part number for all three versions of its internal hydraulic bearing. While the unit was upgraded over the years with design changes and subsequent different o-rings, the company for reasons they can only explain retained the same rebuild kit part number through all three versions even though the rebuild kit is not a universal one providing all o-rings needed for the three designs. I learned that McLeod no longer supported rebuild kits for either of the two earlier versions.

So, I returned my old used unit for a little bit of credit and received their new supposedly Pantera specific version. I discovered the newly supplied kit included a snout spacer that was not correct for the ZF snout, fittings on the hydraulic unit that did not allow safe routing of the hydraulic line within the bell housing, and a bleeding hose that protrudes an ugly 4 inches outside the bell housing.

The routing of the pressure line into the unit utilized a straight AN fitting, which required a highly tensioned and twisted routing to allow the hose to exit the original pivot shaft hole. Unseen within the bell housing, when the braided stainless hose was connected to the main chassis-mounted line connection, the fitting connecting torque displaced the hose's routing and shortly thereafter it suffered failure when its contact with the rotating clutch assembly ground a hole through the stainless line.

If this story of woe is not enough to discourage your purchase of this unit, I will point out that the unit you presented is described as being a custom fit unit. I can only imagine the problems you would experience in such an exercise would be far greater than what I experienced with a kit actually designated as being Pantera specific.

As I said. This is really not something you want to do.

Larry