clutch installiation

[Steve Hales]

I am installing my clutch and am in need of a pilot shaft to line up the clutch disc they make plastic ones.Auto and truck transmission shaft too large, Any ideas? The local parts stores have them but all to big.

steve

[Eugene]

I eyeball them.

A trick perhaps. Center the plate. Snug up the bolts just enough to hold the plate in place but you can move the plate with a bit of force. Eyeball to more precisely center.

Install the engine in the tractor. Once the halves are bolted together. tighten up the 6 bolts from the inspection hole located in the bottom of the torque tube.

Eugene

[Patbretagne]

Years ago on an old Landrover, I found a morse taper drill the same diameter as the splined hole in the clutch plate and the taper went quite happily into the pilot bearing perfectly centring the plate. The LR clutch is somewhat bigger than the Cub but perhaps a suitable drill is hanging about in the workshop?
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Pat

[Merlin]

I am installing my clutch and am in need of a pilot shaft to line up the clutch disc they make plastic ones.Auto and truck transmission shaft too large, Any ideas? The local parts stores have them but all to big.

steve

There's one on e-bay now. Number 7588860985

[AlanPCUBS]

I have never had a problem doing just as Eugene posted, just eyeball it!

[RustyVT]

With my first clutch (a VW at 13!), my dad and I searched high and low for a tool, finally having one made. We left it at the wrong end of a commute the morning of and ended up just eyeballing. Worked like a charm! Never gone back, though if I did more than one a year, it might be nice.

[Steve Hales]

Thanks guys , once again, some very useful information. I will put it to use Friday, I will send pictures of my project Cub a soon as I figure out how.


steve