<html><head></head><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif;font-size:16px"><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9725"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9786">Hi Hank</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9726"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9625">I have had success in the past through the timing flap on the bell housing. On RHD cars the washer bottle and bracket has to be removed but you may have the benefit of not having the steering box in the way on a LHD car. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9825">From memory I think I had no bonnett (hood) on the car at the time so not sure if you'll be able to do it with the bonnett in situ. </span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9842">Using a long (at least a metre) steel rod with a thin tapered end it is just possible to tap it between clutch plate & flywheel while an assistant depressess the clutch pedal thus taking and stress of it. Rotate the engine by hand and three or four points around the circumference of the plate should be enough to free it. No real force needed, like you I struggled in the 'usual' manner but it popped of quite easily as of course you're only freeing a small section at any one time rather than all of it at once and the forces are working to lever it off rather than spin it off.. Theres enough flexability in the plate to cope with the small deflection</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_10422">Good Luck</span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span><br></span></div><div dir="ltr" id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_9624"><span id="yui_3_16_0_ym19_1_1464853726891_10482">Alan Francis (partviking)</span></div> <div class="qtdSeparateBR"><br><br></div><div class="yahoo_quoted" style="display: block;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, Sans-Serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div style="font-family: HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif; font-size: 16px;"> <div dir="ltr"><font size="2" face="Arial"> On Thursday, June 2, 2016 11:34 AM, Ben Saunders via Rovernet <rovernet@rovernet.org> wrote:<br></font></div> <br><br> <div class="y_msg_container">If your car has the timing port you might be able to use an ice pick or <br clear="none">similar object to drift between the disk and flywheel with the clutch <br clear="none">pedal held down.<br clear="none">Ben<br clear="none"><br clear="none">On 06/02/2016 06:16 AM, Hank & Sally Manwell via Rovernet wrote:<br clear="none">> Our ’71 Series II TC was trailered here to Rove America yesterday on a trailer because after two years of storage the clutch has seized.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Dirk has towed it aggressively with clutch pedal depressed and in gear and we have run it up and down the hill the same way, but to no avail.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> It’s in the shop just now while we contemplate whether there are any shortcuts to lowering the engine enough to pull the transmission and clutch to get to the heart of the problem.<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Any thoughts?<br clear="none">><br clear="none">> Hank Manwell<br clear="none">> _______________________________________________<br clear="none">> Rovernet mailing list<br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Rovernet@rovernet.org" href="mailto:Rovernet@rovernet.org">Rovernet@rovernet.org</a><br clear="none">> <a shape="rect" href="http://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org" target="_blank">http://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org</a><div class="yqt0283859162" id="yqtfd92805"><br clear="none"><br clear="none"><br clear="none">_______________________________________________<br clear="none">Rovernet mailing list<br clear="none"><a shape="rect" ymailto="mailto:Rovernet@rovernet.org" href="mailto:Rovernet@rovernet.org">Rovernet@rovernet.org</a><br clear="none"><a shape="rect" href="http://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org" target="_blank">http://rovernet.org/mailman/listinfo/rovernet_rovernet.org</a><br clear="none"></div><br><br></div> </div> </div> </div></div></body></html>