Guys, Patrick, IWANTA etal,
ERA uses the hyd bearing in the 289 car because there is no room for a normal clutch arm and actuator. You would have to shorten the clutch arm enough that the loss in leverage is significant.
Call ERA and ask Doug. He will tell you you could shorten the clutch arm to move the clutch. He will also suggest that the pedal effort with a shortened clutch arm is pretty steep. ERA does NOT use a hyd t/o bearing in the ERA 427" as there is plenty of room for a normal clutch actuating arm...not so on the ERA 289 FIA car.
If you have room for a normal clutch set up in your car do it, there is NO reason to use a hyd t/o bearing if a normal setup will work.
YOU have to know WHICH SERIES of McLeod unit you have. The 1st and 2nd generation has banjo's for fluid in and out and they will leak, especially as quality control went to hell.
The THIRD generation, available from 2004 or so forward has NON of the problems with the lines in and out.
You may have over-extened the ram is you do not have a pedal stop set up on the foot box.
If you have an early unit send it to McLeod and they will install the new series housing on the earlier units.
Don't try to rebuild the unit yourself, the tiny screws holding the housing together are almost guarenteed to strip out, and again NEVER RE-USE THE EARLY BEARING...they are junk. The new series is fine.
There ought to be a "sticky" on this problem.
PM if you want, be glad to explain better what I have learned.
Pete
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Originally Posted by patrickt
I've lost track of the HTOB issue on ERA FIAs. Is it possible yet to use a tried and true fork/slave combination on the FIAs? Or is there simply no room to fit one in?
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