Clutch replacement 350 4 speed with Downey Bell housing (1 Viewer)

[Pighead]

Is that the correct clutch pushrod for that fork?

Post # 41, second pic. I think that's the pushrod you use with the fork with a hole on the end...

 

[SC Forester]

PS here is how I modified the stock Downey bracket to get everything lined up as well as I could.

1. I countersunk the rear bolt hole to gain more clearance to point the slave inward. The countersunk bolt sits flush with the bracket and doesn’t impede adjustment.

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2. Fabbed up a new spring retainer to get the distance right and hold the spring off the slave. Took a couple of attempts to get the lower home in the right spot (to not over-stretch the spring but maintain appropriate tension at rest).

3. I also used longer mounting bolts and spacers to locate it vertically, to keep the slave rod pointer as straight at the fork as I could.

By the way I wasn’t quite done in these pictures, I ended up cocking the bracket out further to clear the slave boot.

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Your pushrod is a lot shorter than the other one. Did you shorten it? He has his mounted a lot further back than you do. Is it better to have a shorter pushrod with the slave cylinder mounted closer to the fork? I am about to make my bracket and I am trying to figure out measurements and angles. Thanks.

 

[RWBeringer4x4]

Your pushrod is a lot shorter than the other one. Did you shorten it? He has his mounted a lot further back than you do. Is it better to have a shorter pushrod with the slave cylinder mounted closer to the fork? I am about to make my bracket and I am trying to figure out measurements and angles. Thanks.

spot on - I made my own push rod. Took some steel bar stock, threaded one end, and ground a blunt point on the other. I cut it a little long and then trimmed the non-threaded end to a length I liked where it was close to adjusted, before I ground the point on it - Then used the OEM pushrod nuts.

 

[RWBeringer4x4]

@SC Forester - I think in the long run I very well may have been able to use an OEM rod. The details are a little blurry since it was years ago but I remember misunderstanding the adjustment up front or thinking the throw out bearing should have been moving farther away from the pressure plate than it was so I did a lot of “experimenting” with push rods and ended up almost too short. It has been working fine for a few years and several multi day wheeling trips though so I must have done something right!