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 Expert Posts: 4458    Location: Jelling, Denmark | Thanks to both of you | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | have been working this weekend on fixing my clutch. I was unable to disengage the clutch last weekend while racing and the next racing event is next weekend, so am in a bit of a hurry to get it fixed. tried all sorts of things, removing the small rund thing that makes it easier to smoothly engage the clutch, adjusted the clutch stop bolt on the end of the cover, moved the leaver with a metal rod to see if the master cylinder wasn't giving it enough travel. measured everything up and nothing was out of place or had moved. nothing worked. So today I removed the cover again and pulled the clutch off. why is it that every time I try to pull that clutch off I end up spending several hours trying to make it let go of my crankshaft. its like its welded on. usually I end up pulling the thread out of the clutch cover together with the three holding bolts or pulling the thread off one of the three bolts, and then I have to cut new thread into the cover and find a bolt that fits and all that. ended up with M10 thread in all three bolts today. damn clutch. but it seems like my clutch plate is slightly distorted (shaped a bit like a bowl, and that of course is wrong. the clutch is nearly two years old (this Christmas) which is about 10 races and driving back and forth to these. The clutch material was wearing thin also, so I ordered a new AP racing clutch plate with express delivery. hopefully it will arrive before Friday so I have time to fit it before racing Saturday. my old clutch was of the minispares racing type with four paddles.  Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:16 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | also drilled a round hole in the right hand side inner wing in order to be able to get air powered tools to work the end of the clutch cover bolt and clutch removal tool bolt. looks almost standard will post more pictures next weekend when I fit the clutch again. | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | picture of the hole I drilled in the inner wing for working on the clutch and on my new clutch plate. When I first assembled the clutch again with the new clutch plate and tried the car, it still didn't work, so went in again and took the clutch out again (friday night) it turned out that when depressed the diaphragm did not let go of the clutch all the way round, but only 2/3's of the way, so changed that also (fortunately had a spare AP diaphragm in the spare-parts-pile no measurable or visible differences between the two but one worked and the other didn't. so finished that friday which was fortunate because I was to race saturday    Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:19 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | here is a few pictures from the race this weekend. great day. fun track. in the middle of a town, right by city hall                      Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:22 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | mookie - 28/8/2011 3:03 PM nice pics as usual, I like the Dolomite, do you know if it was a Sprint Did you do any good in the race? its a sprint yes, and its is really cool and very quick. I think it went really well, I'm happy with my own driving, cant see that I could have done it much quicker without either more power or more grip, felt like I was close to the limit in every single corner. result was: 14'th of 34 in the training and 19'th out of 33 total in the race. and because I am the only person in my group (above 10kg pr. hp) I am always put together with the group from 6 to 10 kg pr. hp, which makes it hard to get at good position in total I was about 6.5 secs behind the next last car which is the grey uno in the picture. it has 130hp and weights about the same as my car, so all in all it was a great day and I think I did good  | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | look what I bought! newly painted and everything it will be a while before they are fitted though. the plans are to fit them with a048 yoko's, fit a set of cross-spokes I have with a539's and then use them for racing as dry and wet weather wheels.   Edited by DotMatrix 28/1/2012 11:24 PM | ||
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 The TV star Metro GTa 1.1i Posts: 1061  Location: Early, Reading. | |||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Metromartin - 17/12/2011 6:51 PM can't wait to see it on those ronals! me neither but just have to save up ~£400 for a set of A048-R first what about compound? I'm thinking soft rather than medium. Roger Red Hat - 17/12/2011 7:21 PM my god this is such a epic metro! thanks mate | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | The racer has its MOT comming up, so have been doing a bit of rust work on the car in my day off tuesday and will continue next weekend. Its a hard place to cut out material between the strengthening inside the rear arch and the strengthening bellow the boot floor, but I think it worked out ok       Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:23 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | finished the rust work this weekend! ended up looking quite good I think. no more rust work this year hopefully        Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:22 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | alexwuk - 5/3/2012 10:07 PM top job mate, looks good. got to do mine before i send it to paint, need to get motivated Alex Pietaster - 5/3/2012 11:27 PM Great work mate, this is easily one of my favourite A-series tro's on the site. thanks you two | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | removed all the sound deadening under the rear seat and removed the rear seat brackets and painted it all blue, not the best of paint jobs but makes it look a bit nicer  Edited by DotMatrix 7/4/2012 11:24 PM | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | had the car out racing for the first time this year yesterday and that was a very wet experience. spun the car in the puddles of standing water, but luckily didn't hit anything a thing that did break though was the water pump to alternator ear (again) damn crap water-pump! fun day though without any major results other than finding out that the rear end of a metro will let go at some point and that at high speed you cannot catch it again (i couldn't anyway ) fun day non the less            | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | Pietaster - 8/4/2012 12:01 AM Nice action shots! whats happened to the alternator fan? broke the bracket you see covered in wire and tape and the lower tightning bracket and the fan hit the waterpump puley. wasn't a nice noise | ||
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The TV star Metro GTa 1.1i Posts: 1061 Location: Early, Reading. | i recognise that fella!  top work! | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | a couple of weekends ago I was out racing at a hill climb that actually have a hill, which gave me the thought that I needed a lower gearing in my car as I never have had any use of 4'th gear while racing. So I bought a second hand 4.133:1 crownwheel and pinion out of an allegro 1100. previously I used a 3.76:1 gearing from a 998 mini. other than changing the gearing the engine had a sound that wasn't supposed to be there at the last race, so wanted to fix it. see if you can spot what made the unpleasant other than that the valve cap was cracked (but unfortunately these are crappy picture from the phone). lastly I found two small pieces of metal in the bottom of the gearbox which I suspect is from the piston I broke last time. only shows how well you have to flush the gearbox when that sort of thing happen. I will put the diff in and the engine back in next weekend, and hopefully it all works for tuesdays race (national holiday in denmark). tight schedule  (Billede0288_resized.jpg)  (Billede0293_resized.jpg)  (Billede0294_resized.jpg)  (Billede0296_resized.jpg)  (Billede0298_resized.jpg)  (Billede0306_resized.jpg)  (Billede0307_resized.jpg) Attachments ----------------  Billede0288_resized.jpg (60KB - 92 downloads) Billede0293_resized.jpg (38KB - 94 downloads) Billede0294_resized.jpg (72KB - 84 downloads) Billede0296_resized.jpg (37KB - 87 downloads) Billede0298_resized.jpg (45KB - 92 downloads) Billede0306_resized.jpg (60KB - 92 downloads) Billede0307_resized.jpg (54KB - 97 downloads) | ||
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Expert Posts: 4458 Location: Jelling, Denmark | fitted and shimmed up the diff and put all the covers etc. on and put the engine back in the cars, connected everything up, put oil and water in and took it for a drive. worked very well and should be ready for racing this tuesday fitted a water-oil heat exchanger thing that the late mg metro's had which I had on a shelf. hopefully that will help warm up my new oil (castrol Vantage Racing IVI stuff) and later on during the day help keep it cool the water for this oil cooler/heater if coupled in series with the heater. also fitted a couple of stickers I bought Edited by DotMatrix 3/6/2012 8:03 PM  (Billede0019_resized.jpg)  (Billede0055_resized.jpg)  (Billede0057_resized.jpg)  (Billede0058_resized.jpg) Attachments ---------------- Billede0019_resized.jpg (72KB - 94 downloads) Billede0055_resized.jpg (51KB - 103 downloads) Billede0057_resized.jpg (48KB - 90 downloads) Billede0058_resized.jpg (70KB - 96 downloads) | ||
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