Pressure Plate Install on '47 Super Clipper

Posted by Dave Kenney On 2009/6/11 19:52:13

Well my clutch disc and pressure plate arrived today so I began reassembling the parts. The flywheel is very heavy and after installing a new sealed pilot bearing I tried in vain to lift the piece up onto the crankshaft by hand. I mounted the flywheel onto a floor jack and lifted with one hand while guiding with the other until I got it close and then lifted it the final 6" or so and installed one bolt. I discovered then that two of the bolt holes have a different spacing from the other four. I held the plate against the crank with one hand and rotated it slowly until al the holes lined up. Something to remember next time. The pressure plate with the disc would not go inside the bellhousing as the clutch release fork was in the way. I gave up after several attempts. The solution was to figure a way to depress the clutch springs and hold them in place. The picture shows how I managed to do this. The block of wood was on a small floor jack and the tool was a seal installer pushing on an old throw out bearing. Not pretty but it did work. Once the springs were depressed I placed 3/8" nuts under each finger of the plate and the springs were held in depressed mode. With that the plate easily slipped up into place. Tomorrow or someday soon when I get time I will install the transmission (seen in background on the jack..

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