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billd
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Posted: May/26/2014 at 10:45pm |
Years ago I converted my SX/4 clutch from that tube on the firewall that acted like the clutch hydraulic fluid "tank" to a real tank. At the time I was lucky to find the plastic reservoir intact, wasn't able to salvage a bracket as they had all rotted due to the fluid getting trapped under the rubber coating put on the original brackets and rotting the metal below.
So I made a bracket to hold the reservoir to the firewall. It worked well, but I recently came across a decent original mounting bracket and am powder coating it prior to putting an original type coating on it. HOWEVER, there appears to be an up and down to the bracket. There's a slight offset - the part that actually clamps around the plastic reservoir is notched - it's narrower than the part of the bracket that screws to the firewall. Does anyone here have an original Eagle that can show how that bracket was mounted from the factory? I know it will technically work either way, but I'd rather mount it like the factory did. Was the cutout part of the bracket up, or down, when it was mounted? One way the part that wraps around and clamps the tank itself would sit lower on the tank, the other way it would sit slightly higher on the tank. Also - one way the screw head would be on the driver side of the car (LEFT side in the states), the other way the screw head would be on the right or passenger side (again, US made cars) Or perhaps it best to describe it thus - in one mounting direction the screw head would be close to the engine, the other way it would be on the opposite side, farther away from the engine, that ain't gonna work either, is it as the clutch pedal and thus the reservoir would be on the right side of the car for the Aussies. Rats. OK, stick with U.S. cars with a left side driver seat - left when sitting in the car, which way does the bolt that clamps the tank go in, and where it the notched part - up or down? Or the Australians could reply if they flip their photo like a transposed negative if anyone here remembers what a negative is, that is. If you are fairly sure that the bracket has never been removed from your Eagle's firewall, can you get a photo, or even describe or draw how it's mounted? Ok, it's been a long week, I'm off to bed, (some would say "he's just 'off'".) |
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billd
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Any thoughts? How the bracket that holds the hydraulic clutch reservoir for an Eagle mounts - which way is up?
I know, I ask that question a lot, but this time it's for a part, not because I don't know which way is up, although today that also may apply.......... Thanks for looking. |
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purple72Gremlin
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Think its pretty rare..........Ive only seen one 5 speed Eagle....guy had 2, and one was a parts car, and I have the Bellhousing out of his parts car, and I havent seen him in a few years now....
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