Hi All,
I am renovating my LeMans Mk1 and have found, among other things, that the whole clutch needs replacing including the flywheel as both the intermediate and pressure discs have worn steps in the flywheel splines.
I have had to replace the friction discs and gearbox hub before due to spline wear (the old shallow spline) but then the flywheel spline wear was not deep enough to worry about. Funnily enough the friction pads are not worn much, only the splines.
So I am tossing up between getting the standard flywheel, discs and hub (but with the newer deeper splines) OR a single disc clutch (such as RAM).
I understand the single disc clutch is designed more like a traditional car clutch with a circular blade spring and no flywheel splines. It also has less inertia than the standard flywheel/clutch.
It would be good to get advice on:
1. if someone has had problems with the single disc clutch on a LM 1 or 2?
2. a flywheel/clutch with less inertia obviously accelerates and decelerates quicker but are there also some not so good effects? Like uneven idling?
3. the newer standard dual deep spline discs and hub, do they actually work better and wear less than the old?
Thanks for any info.
I am renovating my LeMans Mk1 and have found, among other things, that the whole clutch needs replacing including the flywheel as both the intermediate and pressure discs have worn steps in the flywheel splines.
I have had to replace the friction discs and gearbox hub before due to spline wear (the old shallow spline) but then the flywheel spline wear was not deep enough to worry about. Funnily enough the friction pads are not worn much, only the splines.
So I am tossing up between getting the standard flywheel, discs and hub (but with the newer deeper splines) OR a single disc clutch (such as RAM).
I understand the single disc clutch is designed more like a traditional car clutch with a circular blade spring and no flywheel splines. It also has less inertia than the standard flywheel/clutch.
It would be good to get advice on:
1. if someone has had problems with the single disc clutch on a LM 1 or 2?
2. a flywheel/clutch with less inertia obviously accelerates and decelerates quicker but are there also some not so good effects? Like uneven idling?
3. the newer standard dual deep spline discs and hub, do they actually work better and wear less than the old?
Thanks for any info.