chaparral wrote: I don't know how the engineers thought that a piece of compressed charcoal would be any good as a throwout bearing.
While I'd normally take any chance to take a shot at an MG. . . .
Given the amount of automotive maintenence required in this era, including recommended engine bearing changeouts in something less than 50k mile intervals, it wasn't really too shabby a design. Consider that there was not much traffic on the roads back them, fewer starts and stops, etc.
Jack
1960 Triumph TR3 (with a real TO bearing) + 1980 Triumph TR8
