Kiwi Will
Active Member
I haven't done much truck driving compared with most if not all you fellas Nor had I done a truck clutch before so am scratching my head lots.
Truck is a 1988 10 tonne flat deck with hoist, semi retired Hino GD166B. It's being used mostly for firewood delivery.
Clutch rusted up after sitting for more than a year. I dropped the gearbox using the electrically operated hoist as a lifting & lowering system. That worked well.
Removed Clutch cover & plate, and fly wheel. (Cover on its own, seems to weigh more than the flywheel ! )
Got a new clutch kit and spigot Brg and now when measuring the hole to make up a lining up dowel for when its re assembled, I found spigot shaft 0.04 - 0.06 mm ( >0.00223 decimal inches) undersize. This means that I can slide the bearing onto the shaft easily & I'm sure it will wobble around in the bearing. I think that some may think it's not great slop but it's more than I feel comfortable with, but then I like things right. I get called a perfectionist or just too damb fussy.
What suggestions do you reckon you can give ?
Replace the shaft? That would be far bigger cost than I want to spend.
Is it able to be turned down a touch, say... have a millimeter and a smaller I.D. Brg fitted ?
Turn it down and put a bush on the spigot shaft ?
or
Throw it back together with the new bits in it and drive it until it dies ?
or
Sell da ol' girl assembled with the new bits in it ?
I estimate the motor has not got anymore than 100 - 200km left in it before the inspections tell me to take it off the road for the reason of it having too much of a dirty exhaust.
Trucks replacement 2nd/hand motor (fan to flywheel) is around $4500
Trucks worth around $8 - 10K
Would really appreciate your comments
Cheers
Truck is a 1988 10 tonne flat deck with hoist, semi retired Hino GD166B. It's being used mostly for firewood delivery.
Clutch rusted up after sitting for more than a year. I dropped the gearbox using the electrically operated hoist as a lifting & lowering system. That worked well.
Removed Clutch cover & plate, and fly wheel. (Cover on its own, seems to weigh more than the flywheel ! )
Got a new clutch kit and spigot Brg and now when measuring the hole to make up a lining up dowel for when its re assembled, I found spigot shaft 0.04 - 0.06 mm ( >0.00223 decimal inches) undersize. This means that I can slide the bearing onto the shaft easily & I'm sure it will wobble around in the bearing. I think that some may think it's not great slop but it's more than I feel comfortable with, but then I like things right. I get called a perfectionist or just too damb fussy.
What suggestions do you reckon you can give ?
Replace the shaft? That would be far bigger cost than I want to spend.
Is it able to be turned down a touch, say... have a millimeter and a smaller I.D. Brg fitted ?
Turn it down and put a bush on the spigot shaft ?
or
Throw it back together with the new bits in it and drive it until it dies ?
or
Sell da ol' girl assembled with the new bits in it ?
I estimate the motor has not got anymore than 100 - 200km left in it before the inspections tell me to take it off the road for the reason of it having too much of a dirty exhaust.
Trucks replacement 2nd/hand motor (fan to flywheel) is around $4500
Trucks worth around $8 - 10K
Would really appreciate your comments
Cheers
