There is an expoded diagram in the old Vizard book. This shows the arragement of the clutch plates and belleville washers (the cuved ones). The ones I have had have always been fairly good nick but I guess the gears and the housing inner facings could wear. You can check the torque in a vice with a torque wrench - new they are around 120lbs but get down to 30-40 when the plates are worn. Might need to make up something to connect the torque wrench - I can take a photo if you need it. Or weld a nut on an old driveshaft and hook up a H/S joint and output shaft.
You can machine the inner face of the housings and take the same off the outer rim if it is badly worn I guess. I think they use the same plates as the Escort English axle Salisbury - Burtons might have something? In fact I have wondered if the whole unit is an Escort/Cortina one with the housing machined to fit the Mini bearings. Fords use 6 bolt cw's which the Mini Salisbury has.
They are a breeze to pull apart and reassemble. The bolts are hard to get but you can use allen screwsLast edited on Monday May 5th, 2008 09:24 pm by graeme1293 |
