Clutch cable gaiter clip - a soluton to a non-existent problem?

[JP]

Thanks JV and Guy

[Nigel Riches]

Another regular cause of failure at the pedal end is over enthusiastic tightening of the bolt through the eye, meaning the end can't pivot around the bolt, therefore bends, and eventually breaks, same for throttle cables.

[Wrightpayne]

Nigel,

Mine has a clevis pin and R clip for the clutch cable attachment to the pedal.

Ian

[JP]

And mine.

[John Vine]

And my old 1999 1.8K.

JV

[Guy Lowe]

Clevis pin here. 

[Iamscotticus]

Does a thrust bearing, provided its correct for the cover, tolerate continuous contract with cover when preloaded?  Is this the norm for hydraulics? 

Gaiter clip- they tend have poor tension.  Im inclined to think they are less for retention of the gaiter, but more for keeping the gaiter's form, or shape, like a camp tent batten.  Perhaps a heat set will return it to the tension needed to spread the sealing lips in the BH opening.

[John Vine]

#32

Re contact, yes most definitely, with the bearing pressing on the fingers of the diaphragm spring. In cable clutches, pre-load is usually applied externally via a spring. Modern hydraulic clutches use a concentric slave cylinder (CRC) with the release bearing at one end and pre-load applied by a spring inside a flexible bellows. In both cases, the bearing spins at crank speed.

JV