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This is just another one of the many interesting problems I've found on my '72, I'd laugh, but then I realize I bought the problems.
Today, I was just shifting around, feeling the placement of my driver's seat, to see if it felt right for me, and, had I not removed the transmission tunnel cover earlier, I wouldn't have believed this myself.
Ever since I brought my 40 home, the clutch pedal felt spongey, and I knew I'd have to bleed it, but I guess that wan't the problem- the slave cylinder was junk, cobbled together.
So today, I mash down on the clutch, and it just goes dead, limp, and as I'm watching from the open tranny tunnel, I see the back of the slave cylinder shoot (yes shoot) off the main housing, and skip a few times on the ground. Turns out one of my cruisers's many POs had just stuck a piece of metal, like a ground-down pipe cap, in the back of the housing; and replaced the arm that attatches to the fork with just a rusted out anchor bolt, perched between the two parts. Wehn I shifted, the bolt dropped out, and the pressuer blew the pipe cap off like a misguided rocket. it was insane.
I'll upload some pics later, when I'm in town and have access to faster internet.
Today, I was just shifting around, feeling the placement of my driver's seat, to see if it felt right for me, and, had I not removed the transmission tunnel cover earlier, I wouldn't have believed this myself.
Ever since I brought my 40 home, the clutch pedal felt spongey, and I knew I'd have to bleed it, but I guess that wan't the problem- the slave cylinder was junk, cobbled together.
So today, I mash down on the clutch, and it just goes dead, limp, and as I'm watching from the open tranny tunnel, I see the back of the slave cylinder shoot (yes shoot) off the main housing, and skip a few times on the ground. Turns out one of my cruisers's many POs had just stuck a piece of metal, like a ground-down pipe cap, in the back of the housing; and replaced the arm that attatches to the fork with just a rusted out anchor bolt, perched between the two parts. Wehn I shifted, the bolt dropped out, and the pressuer blew the pipe cap off like a misguided rocket. it was insane.
I'll upload some pics later, when I'm in town and have access to faster internet.
