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I believe that you will be alot happier with the external slave set up.
Wrench 87, I was so fustrated witht the McCleod internal slave and I wasn't able to find an off the shelf replacement for it. So, I fabricated my own. This was in 2001, and on a Chevy small block. I used a stock Chevy HD throw out bearing and ordered a HD clutch arm. I had a Lakewood bellhousing, aluminum flywheel and the McCleod twin disc street clutch. I used a Wilwood pull slave. I used this one, because if I remember rght, it had a longer throw. i had to redo the pivot point on the bellhousing because in the stock location the throw required to engage the clutch was too long which resulted in a bad angle. I drilled a hole through the ball pivot point on the clutch arm to run the slave rod through. I then fabricated a rear mounted bracket for the slave cylinder.
I cant honestly say that I remember what the bearing face on my internal throwout looked like. It may of been different and at the time I didn't know better to look. I did run my system for 8900 miles with out a problem. My solution was not that simple or elegant but it did work.
The final straw that made me replace the system was because of a near catastrophe with the other. I had a 538hp smallblock with the internal throwout in a car that I had built. I had just gone on a test drive and was stopped at an intersection. I had a shift light set to flash at 6000 rpms and hadn't seen it flash yet. So, I ran the motor up to 6k and all of a sudden the clutch fully engaged!!!!!!! I shot across the intersection before I was able to shut it down. Fortunately I missed the crossflow traffic! The seal on the bearing had suddenly and completely let go. And, yes the throw out was properly shimmed and I had a pedal stop on the clutch pedal. John
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