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righto chaps, I've not received anything yet

Me neither.

Richard.

Minivanless, but reluctantly happy living with the decision. There'll be another one day.
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Still waiting here too.

Own the day

Mine came last week!

Hmmm,

I'm guessing Wil H and PaulH have not recived anything yet either?

if so i'll be kicking the despatch boys arse monday....

nope nothing has come this way Joe :(

Ok,

I got the missus to send out the "first lot" they appear to have all got there ok,

Sprokets and tmvm's i was triming to the required length and the others i needed a deliver address, so the went a day or two later via the works depatch system, I'm guesing they are still sitting on someones desk.....

I will check it out monday and probably have words with the culprit.

Sorry folks, and cheers for letting me know.

It was as I suspected

they are now in the post as of yesterday, so should arrive today/tomorrow.

Mine turned up yesterday and I have been busy assembling it, then had to go out.

Anyway, I'll throw up some pics showing how the AP clutch looks.

Anyone want a steel ring for the Valeo clutch?

Thanks Joe:)

Edited by Sprocket on 10th Dec, 2009.

Got mine yesterday too. I think I understand how it all goes together, but have I missed a how to thread?

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

There's not a how to thread, but I can walk you through it and pass on home hints.

First thing is to get two verto's and pull them apart, and tap the holes M8.

then measure the rings and springs.

Now you have said tap M8 it all becomes clear. The ring the spacers everything.

Rather annoingly at home I had two vertos, one Valeo and one later one, doh!.

I have another Valeo on it's way.

Fastest 998 mini in the world? 13.05 1/4 mile 106mph

lol,

It is fairly easy, once you figure what's happening.

there are 6x 15mm socket heads to hold the pressure plate to the flywheel and 9x 20mm socket heads to hold the springs to the pressure plate.

the main thing is to measure the 2x pivot rings (stainless ring things), the springs and add it all together to get the length that the spacers need to be,

for shortening the spacers I found an m8 counterbore works really well,

assembling the whole lot can be a fiddle, I found putting thr bolts through the big support ring, then sitting that upside down on something flat and then adding the spacers, ring, springs, other ring, then sitting the fluwheeel on top, the flipping the whole lot over and tightening it up worked for me.

Many thanks Joe.

Got mine today.

Richard.

Edited by turbominivanman on 10th Dec, 2009.

Minivanless, but reluctantly happy living with the decision. There'll be another one day.
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Cheers Joe

"Turbo's make torque, and torque makes fun"

"did you know you can toast potato waffles?"

Mine have arrived cheers

Own the day

arived today Joe thanks :)

I'm in a position to use my bits now but I have an AP clutch. Will I need to use washers in place of the ring?

if your using an AP just use the AP ring :)

Of course use the AP ring......I'm a bloody numpty

Best way to get the AP ring off is to first drill the heads off the rivets from the topside. I damaged two trying to get the rivets and spacers off the ring after drilling the rivets out from the bottom side. The rivets expand into the spacers making it a bit of a mare

I'm in the middle of finishing mine, i'll throw a piccie up later

Incidently, I am now going to use a brown and light blue spring-late 1275 and turbo.

Edited by Sprocket on 16th May, 2010.

as Sprocket says drill the heads off,

what i found works well is to centre punch the heads then pilot drill with about a 3mm drill around 10-15mm deep, then with an 8-8.5mm drill dril each head till it pops off, you'll them be able to separate all the bits,then using a 6mm drill drill through the rest of the rivets deep enough that you can twat the remaining of it off and then punch the last little bit of the rivet out the back,

it takes me about 20-30 mins to pull one apart.

Thanks for the tips.

Piccies of an AP set up. No idea if its going to be too much

The pressure plate does need refacing. Going check run out all round and to see if it will balance without the flywheel.

I might also try and see about measuring the throw out force when its built up and compare it with the orange pre verto, which will require a little math too.

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Edited by Sprocket on 16th May, 2010.