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In Pantera terma I am a newbie, only owning my car since 2013, Paid far too much etc etc.

I am fortunate enough to have found Mr Drew who has led me through many problems and has assisted in so many ways and I am very grateful to him.

The problem as I see it is that Pantera owners assume thaT PEOPLE LIKE ME KNOW THE ROPES, WE DONT, I have had awful problems with my clutch this year, have finally got it to work ( I think)

But now I read that the release bearing has some kind of washer that can be removed to get the clutch action correct!

Do I have to take out the bloody gearbox again????

I am certain that one of our members could do a full comprehensive write up about the whole business of how to replace the worn out clutch on a Pantera including the master cyl slave cylinder, pressure plate Spinner plate release bearing, there is not enough info in the Pantera place, only small bits of info all over the show.

If this has been written up years ago, my apologies, if not a hearty round of applause to the man who can put all the info together and save folk like me from themselves, who can cause a cock up of Megga proportions because we only think we know what were doing, help please!
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Peter,

The washer reference is only for an internal hydraulic release bearing. If you have the stock style throw out (release) bearing with the external slave cylinder and arm then ignore any comments about washers. If you have some amount of free clearance between the bearing and the pressure plate fingers when clutch is at rest then you are good.

Forest
Forest, not exactly true. My McLeod conventional ToB had a number of Rings in different thickness. They could be combined in many ways to achieve the correct length of the whole ToB assembly. I adjusted for 1,5mm play when fully retracted and cold. And I had one of the rings in surplus after that. I still have it somewhere and if I remember correct it was a lot thicker than 1,5mm Eeker
btw the 1,5mm comes from somewhere in the Pantera specific literature. Cant tell where on the top of my Heart.

I can only imagine if people just install the ToB without checking and it will likely cause a lot of trouble later on due to Bearing constantly running on the fingers/pressure plate and perhaps even pushing it in and putting a preload on the Clutch which is BAD. It can not be adjusted away on the Linkage either.

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