My Pete rebuild

[Nostalgic]

(09-04-2018 )Hammerhead Wrote:  If you haven't got it in yet, I have a Lipe 1 and I don't think it's any harder to hold the pedal in at a light. It does grab like a mofo though, so engagement is when you need the leg muscles to finesse it smoothly...

Holding it in isn't the issue, it's the "finesse" part towards the top of the stroke that gets me. Even in my youth, if I was spotting trailers all day, it felt like my knee cap was going to pop off.

It went on last night, and transmission is in now.

Which brings me to this little flub. You know, the release forks can fit in the pressure plate slots just right... You can spin all the bolts in by hand, and find out that it's stuck. Then you get to put the jack back under it, back all the bolts out, which the loctite has started to harden on, pull the transmission back far enough to get it to drop down where it's supposed to be on the throwout bearing, and then clean your threads, apply new loctite, and spin things back in... Not that I would ever f&*(#p like that or anything lol. I should have known, since things went way too smooth.