On Sat, 27 Jan 2018 16:37:44 +1100, Xeno >
wrote:

>On 27/01/2018 1:47 PM, Mad Roger wrote:
>> On Fri, 26 Jan 2018 13:13:56 -0800,
>> Oren wrote:
>>
>>> Why is it you think the clutch pedal "feel" is not an aspect of the
>>> adjustment? The throw out bearing needs to release from the clutch
>>> plate in the bell housing. You can't adjust it by a ruler. You need
>>> a little slop in the pedal so the plate is not always engaged at the
>>> risk of burning the plate.
>>>
>>> ...at least back in the day. Two cents.
>>
>> It's not my vehicle, and the "feel" stinks no matter what position it's in.
>
>The feel doesn't stink just because *you* don't like it.
>>
>> What changes is that it engages early, or late, but not in a way that I
>> like either way.
>
>It will either take up early or it will take up late. It cannot do both,
>either one or the other. Clutches simply cannot work the way you are
>imagining they do.
>>
>> So I can't adjust it by feel because there is no position that feels right
>> to me.
>
>This is a situation where pedancy will stuff you up right royally.
>>
>> Therefore, I just want to adjust it by the book.
>
>Do you have the *book* handy? If not, you are lost.
>
>The method used to adjust a clutch will depend entirely on the mechanism
>employed. There are 3 general possibilities in common use; hydraulic,
>cable, mechanical linkage. Each of those will have variants and the
>differences will make a difference to how and where it is adjusted.
>
>Best you get to it and RTFM.
>>
>> If only I knew what to measure as I think it's for a millimeter or two of
>> 'slop' between the rounded end of the bolt and the master cylinder piston
>> cup.
>>
>> But I don't feel that slop in any case.
>
>If you can't feel the play, it doesn't have any.
>
>If it is meant to have play, then fix it so it does.
>
>> And I don't know where to measure it either.
>
>For master cylinder clearance - At the pedal pushrod in most cases.
>For slave cylinder clearance - at the slave cylinder in most cases.
>>
>> Hence the question.
>>
Better than 90% of vehicles with standard transmissions today have
NO MANUAL ADJUSTMENT PROVISIONS.

Mad MaX is an IDIOT.