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Been doing my kid brothers clutch after it stopped working. symptoms were like a broken cable but the cable is fine, also had drive just the pedal lost its resistance.
dropped the box out last night expecting to find the diaphragm spring to be fatigued, didn't finish taking the box out until 1100pm last night and today I had a look at the bell housing and found a hole in it.
At first I thought A kwik fit type monkey had been a bit enthusiastic at cutting a bolt off. then i see all the impact marks around the inside of it. while I cant see what caused it, I will make sure it cant happen again.
I have 2 kits on order from milner offroad 1 for him and 1 for me.
any idea's how to fix cheaply?
any miracle off the shelf compounds you have tried other than superglue?
Odd that!
My first thought was someone has knocked a hole to inspect the clutch plate to avoid work. However the impact marks inside the housing suggest otherwise. Looks like centrifugal forces have damaged the casing, possibly bits flying off an earlier fitted clutch/release plate.
Since the housing is only for the clutch simply mix araldite and plug the hole. Some motor shops sell 'artificial metal' which is mixed from two tubes and moulded to fill holes.
bell housing
two words "chemical metal" works a treat
Ta lads. Will go get some
Ta lads.
Will go get some from halfords. Its got to be worth trying. I dont want to pay to have it welded.
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Bell Housings
Several options open too you, some already listed.
Drill hole out and fit blanking grommet.
Drill hole out and tap a thread, then screw a blanking plug in.
If you have the facilities, make and fit an aluminium rivet plug.
Or, if you are in the Notts, / Derbys area; sitting on my back yard is a bellhousing off a recently stripped gearbox, which had internal problems. only holes in this one are the ones supposed to be in it, and it just needs collecting.
Thanx 4 the offer.
Cheers for the offer. But I would like to not mess with this box too much as it was a quiet one (no whining) before I took it out.
Tried chemical metal. Ill have a look at how its bonded in the morning.
If it fails drill and tap is a gr8 idea.
Grommit will be next.
but if it gets any worse I have a spare working (if a bit noisy) gearbox in the "scraptrak" that I keep for spares.
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Bell housing
You do not change the gearbox, simply the bell housing, this is held on with four bolts, you keep your existing gear and transfer box if they are in good condition.
Takes about three minutes to replace the bell housung.
Chemical metal...
Chemical metal did the trick, I tested it by tapping it with a hammer, scraped it with a screwdriver, and wire brushed it. Its quite good stuff. I wish I read assasins post earlyer about it taking a few mins to swap a bell housing, I'm quite new to diy mechanics and had no idea whats inside a gearbox. If the chem metal fails Ill take a trip to up the A38 to get that housing if its still available. any how the box is back in now, I found that the bolt that holds the release lever yoke to the brass arm was sheard and there were two bolt heads loosely wedged in various parts of the bell housing I guess thats what caused all the damage.
Cheers to every one for the help, especially assasin for sound advice and the kind offer of a bell housing.
May all your daihatsu's run forever....
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