Grey clutch cover
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Hi,

The mini I have now has a Grey/Double Grey (not too sure) clutch cover fitted, problem I'm having is the bite seems to come in right at the bottom and as soon as you let your foot off.

Shouldn't it be like a normal clutch with the Grey just hard? I'm thinking it needs a good bleed or the clutch arm/clevis pins changing?

Cheers

if its too high for you slacken off the little bolt under the arm a bit.

worn pins and needing a bleed would move the bite point away from the top.

When you press the pedal down, apart from the very first little bit, is it uniformly hard all the way down or does it only go hard at the bottom.

If it only goes hard at the bottom, as per your list (air or worn pins) but add to the list wear on the ball on the end of the arm or (worst case) worn crankshaft thrust washers (caused by the strong spring in the cover......)

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

It seems to go hard at the bottom, I'm thinking of changing it later on to a Orange as Grey seems too much, I'll try changing the arm and pins and see if it makes any difference, could it be the pushrod too? As I have a new one too?

It could just be adjustment as Joe says if it operates at the bottom only (I forgot....).

Take the return spring of the top of the arm, pull the arm as far away from the adjuster bolt head as it will go (which takes up all the play in the pins) and measure the gap between bolt head and arm with feeler gauges.

It could also be the clevis pin under the master cylinder meaning some of the pedal movement doesn't move any fluid.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

Cheers guys, another thing, does it really need a grey cover? It is a NA 1380 which had a RR figure over 100bhp, but then again I have a friend running a 1380 on a normal blue cover and his is fine and has about 90-100bhp?

I really think a grey is far too heavy for your power output.

I'd go for a standard turbo verto.

In the 13's at last!.. Just

I'd go for the orange, grey is for 130+. ive got a blue spare if you want it mate.

Sorted gearchange now, clutch definitely needs sorting, I think I'll have to change to an orange diaphragm, change clutch arm and bits and give it a good bleed, reverse is crunchy and hard to get into