Finally recieved My McLeod Twin disc set up. Have a Question before Install.
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Finally recieved My McLeod Twin disc set up. Have a Question before Install.
Well after 7 months of waiting I finally recieved my McLeod Twin disc set up with master cylinder (the master cylinder is a Willwood) not sure if this is their "new" master cylinder or not.
Anyways I have a question for guys who have installed this clutch set up before. McLeod notes at the bottom of the instructions
"ALL ASSEMBLIES SHOULD BE MATCH BALANCED TO YOUR OLD FLYWHEEL"
I'm kind of lost in what there saying there. Am I suppose to take my Old beat flywheel and new McLeod fly wheel to the machine shop and get them to "match balance it"
This may be a dumb statement but isn't balanced.... balanced?
I'm going to call McLeod tomorrow, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ryan
Anyways I have a question for guys who have installed this clutch set up before. McLeod notes at the bottom of the instructions
"ALL ASSEMBLIES SHOULD BE MATCH BALANCED TO YOUR OLD FLYWHEEL"
I'm kind of lost in what there saying there. Am I suppose to take my Old beat flywheel and new McLeod fly wheel to the machine shop and get them to "match balance it"
This may be a dumb statement but isn't balanced.... balanced?
I'm going to call McLeod tomorrow, but any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks
Ryan
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I third this. Just cleaned it and installed it. Just a note keep the washers clean and seperated. There small and tend to hide. Been 25k on mine and still hitting every gear hard as ever
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Hmm, I called the guys at McLeod today and they Reccomend getting it match balanced to the olf flywheel and pressure plate. So I'm going to do that just to be safe. I talked to my local machine shop and they wont be able to do it until monday. So looks like I won't be firing it up this weekend. It'll give me a chance to tie up some loose ends on the car like make up my new battery cables, HVAC gauge pod stuff like that.
Thanks for your input guys.
Thanks for your input guys.
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they tell you to get it balanced to your old flywheel because that old flywheel is balanced to match your original rotating assembly. now in my case i had a brand new motor built and they built it to be zero balanced so i took the weight off the back of the flywheel off and this zero balanced the mcleod set up and it works great... if you dont at least to check to make sure that its balanced to your old fly wheel (in essence will balance it to your rotating assembly) you may end up with some crazy vibrations and be kicking yourself for not checking it. This is the reasoning behind getting it balanced to the old one. Hope this helps
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correct. i had mine matched when i got it, it was 2 grams out.
they tell you to get it balanced to your old flywheel because that old flywheel is balanced to match your original rotating assembly. now in my case i had a brand new motor built and they built it to be zero balanced so i took the weight off the back of the flywheel off and this zero balanced the mcleod set up and it works great... if you dont at least to check to make sure that its balanced to your old fly wheel (in essence will balance it to your rotating assembly) you may end up with some crazy vibrations and be kicking yourself for not checking it. This is the reasoning behind getting it balanced to the old one. Hope this helps
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Thanks for all the info guys. I dropped it off at the machine shop today. Should have it back wendsday. I'm still running the stock short block. I'm really hoping to fire it up next weekend, since I had a few delays this week and it wasnt possible to get it running this weekend. I've been slowly Doing everything since october, I'll make a build thread with a lot of pictures sometime next week showing everything I have done, along with a start up vid.