The 'E' Type Forum

I would appreciate any comments or recommendations.

I have had a gearbox oil leak from the front bellhousing seal. It leaked on the pressure plate, friction plate and flywheel surface.

After cleaning the flywheel surface with brake cleaner, there remains a number of black areas on the flywheel that I would like to remove. I believe either they are burnt oil residue or areas of the flywheel that were heated more than other areas. The clutch was slipping horribly before removing.

I would like to use 400 Grit sand paper and gently sand the flywheel surface then clean again with brake cleaner, is this wise? Or should I get the flywheel resurfaced?

Any suggestions?

Mark : you will do no harm at all using the abrasive you suggest . Whether it will work sufficiently is perhaps more questionable . The surface is enormously hard, and indeed where there have been inclusions in the surface of either flywheel or pressure plate, I have on occasion removed them with an oilstone well lubricated with engine oil

Can Oil be soaked into the stuff ? The re - new.

Think about the hassle of it when it does not work.....

Carsten

No, oil " cannot be soaked into the stuff " . The flywheel is steel

Ok. I wasn?t thinking about the flywheel, it was the clutch disc I was thinking about.

I would say to better renew this.

The flywheel is no problem. Brake Cleaner, and the rest will burn of on first 10 miles.

Carsten

Oh, the facing on the clutch driven plate inevitably is scrap, but the clutch cover and flywheel can be re-used . Incidentally, if you want to retain the original driven plate, Bonding and Reline at Leicester will put new linings on the plate at very modest cost and, in my experience, almost by return of post

I used the sand paper and brake fluid and it worked very well at removing all the dark areas and smoothed out the surface at the same time.


A new pressure and clutch plate were used and all is back in place.

Just waiting for the weather to improve to get the engine and gearbox back in the car.

Thanks to all