52 F1 clutch problems?
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52 F1 clutch problems?
Hello everyone, I have a 52 F1 with 239 flatty and 4speed trans. I was wondering if anyone knows where the release fingers are supposed to be, "straight" or have a bend in them. I noticed that only one of the three fingers on mine was barely touching and the other two were not, so I pulled the tranny and measured throwout/release bearing and measures about 3 1/4" for surface contact. Is the throwout bearing just the wrong size or did for sum reason the fingers get bent all the same? It looks to uniform to me to have all three fingers bend the same angle and amount? Any help would be greatly appreciated.
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mine are bent all the same, dont have a pic but can get 1, and hopefully u can help me post it since i have heard its hard to get pics up. But thanks for the pic. I figured they needed to be straight just seemed really unusual that all 3 were bent uniformaly
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Pics are easy to post, but they first must be hosted on a third party photo hosting site, like flickr or imageshack, among others. (I despise photobucket) From there, it's a quick copy and paste of the link, with a [img] before and a [/img] after the link.
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Help is on the first page of the forum, right at the top:
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...-pictures.html
https://www.ford-trucks.com/forums/6...-pictures.html
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Here are 2 pictures I took, one with the pressure plate apart and one with it together, was going to try and straighten them.
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Was also wondering if anyone knows of good place to get clutch, napa has for 250 or so, just wondering what my other options are. From the looks of it the clutch is fine other than the bent fingers.
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NAPA sells both a Long-style (fingers) and a diaphragm pressure plate for the 10" clutch, but I think they only have a Long for the 11" which is what I suspect you have. The diaphragm is smoother, may need to check clearances to bellhousing, but I've had one for a couple years. If you have a 10", I'd consider the diaphragm.
If there is a truck clutch shop in your neck of the woods, they can rebuild it. With your fingers being toast, I'd make sure they can get new ones first.
If there is a truck clutch shop in your neck of the woods, they can rebuild it. With your fingers being toast, I'd make sure they can get new ones first.
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