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Tonight on the way home my clutch linkage broke!

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote farna Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: Mar/24/2017 at 5:37am
That or the spring that holds the fork on the ball. It's all relative... has to be lined up right or force will push things the wrong way... "Right" is not always clear, and the TSM doesn't always show enough. They assume you had a good working car with everything installed right to begin with. Not always the case 50 years later, and there isn't another one in the dealer lot to go take a quick look at either -- or someone in the shop with as much or more Rambler experience as you!
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Originally posted by tomj tomj wrote:

it sounds like you lost the ball that the clutch release fork rides on. not hard to do.  that would cause all of the symptoms you mention. properly set up, there's simply not that much play at the release fork.

I can see it in there and the fork looks like it goes onto it.....but it will move easily. 

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Originally posted by farna farna wrote:

That or the spring that holds the fork on the ball. It's all relative... has to be lined up right or force will push things the wrong way... "Right" is not always clear, and the TSM doesn't always show enough. They assume you had a good working car with everything installed right to begin with. Not always the case 50 years later, and there isn't another one in the dealer lot to go take a quick look at either -- or someone in the shop with as much or more Rambler experience as you!

I have this photo from when I pulled the car apart and I will take a look at where it is now when I get a chance. I am home from work sick as a dog right now. :( 

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I got the rear end moved back pulling the yoke out of the trans WHOOO HOOOO! 

I had to laugh when I got the rear end back a number of inches how the rear wheels are almost perfectly placed in the wheel wells. LOL 

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