Now I meant to do this last week, but I didnt get around to it, I cant remember why, but that is no surprise, my memory is awful and unless I write it down there is only about 50% chance I will remember it!

I had previously posted that I had made two pillars for the clutch slave cylinder but was waiting for the studs to dry before attempting to assemble it. Well when I subsequently measured it all up, I had made the pillars for the standard length pushrod, but this meant the cylinder hit the dry sump pump. So after a quick redesign the pillars were shortened aswell as the pushrod and it was assembled up.

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To mount the clutch slave cylinder I needed to make up some pillars and a boss for the three mounting holes. I decided to make the pillars first and then, once mounted worry about the boss. I decided to helicoil some ally tube we had and then glue in a stud one end of the pillar and tap the other end for a bolt.

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I have been thinking about the clutch for a while. Having machined off one of the mounting pillars to mount my gear pot, the original slave cylinder arrangement was looking a little weak! I had planned on fabricating a plate from the dry sump pump to mount the cylinder, but Paul Dobb brought a slave cylinder for me to have a look at. I had seen them on the Internet before, but didn’t want to shell out more cash not really knowing if it was going to fit, so Paul bringing one around was really good! Anyway, it all seemed to fit, even if I need to make a custom mounting kit to miss the pump, so here it is. It came from SBD and mounts to their dry sump pump also, but lots of places seem to sell similar things! 

So, after building up the basket and plates it was time to throw it into the engine. now, when I took the basket off, I undid the big nut with an airgun. That was all fine and worked a treat, but now I had to torque it up. And of course I don’t have the proper Suzuki tool for holding the basket, so i had to botch one up double snappy.So, after last weeks upsetting result of thinking I didn’t have the right spring plate, I got stuck in with the clutch. Not really too much to say as it pretty simple. The only slight difficulty was finding a method of holding the basket from turning when doing up the bolts. In the end I used 2 bits of steel in between the fingers as shown, clamped in the vice.

 I was told that after torquing up the bolts, it was sensible to tack weld them so there was no way of them coming lose. Not to sure about this as it seems like a one hit wonder, but I suppose I can easily, he hopes, just grind the tack off if I ever need to…. (famous last words!)

So, after building up the basket and plates it was time to throw it into the engine. now, when I took the basket off, I undid the big nut with an airgun. That was all fine and worked a treat, but now I had to torque it up. And of course I don’t have the proper Suzuki tool for holding the basket, so I had to botch one up double snappy.

So some off cut angle and plate soon became the worlds most over engineered clutch basket holding tool! But hey, it shouldn’t brake!

 The engine is now mechanically all done apart from the covers, which I should be getting back on Tuesday/Wednesday depending on posting times.