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Just to add to the list of clutch woes that sometimes afflict us, here's a couple more.

Exhibit 1 is the clutch cover out of my daily driver Hurricane. This suddenly only gave me half a clutch one day. It felt just like the cross-shaft pin had broken, except it's a Spitfire 1300 which doesn't have a cross-shaft. If you look closely, you can see that the diaphragm spring has sheared.

So having fixed that, I got back to putting the TR back together. When I took the engine out, the clutch was fine so didn't really look too closely.

Now when I come to replace it I see that the clutch plate is broken. Shouldn't that have 6 rivets, not 3 anyway?

Never seen either of these before, so thought it worth sharing.

Jerry.

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There were quite a few spectacular failures of those back a few years ago Jerry. I thought they had all been cleared out by now but all I can say is you must be very light on your clutch use as they normally didnt last long.

Stuart.

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