Farking Curly made me go to see the doc today and they reckon I've got diabeties and have to knock off all the pies and piss drinking and start eatting lettace and shit now
more importantly we pulled the clutch out of my 40 series yesterday, had a good look underneath and it was going to be too much pissing around trying to drop the gearbox, the trucks been really well built but the vacuum 4WD actuator has been slotted into the inside of the chassis rail to fit and the safari PTO shaft would be an absolute prick to get out and the PTO would have to come off the gearbox and the 3" exhaust is tucked up really tight and would have to be dissassembled and removed to get the gearbox out so we took the easier option and pulled the engine
took the clutch out to MP in Upper Hutt to get looked at, they've rebuilt it before and pulled the jobsheet out and it turns out they rebuilt it not many kms ago, he measured it up and theres next to no wear on the clutch plate lineings, the clutch is a 12" chev clutch and functions ok under normal use but spins up under hard load so it looks like it needs something a bit stronger, might look at my old 11" clutch that came out of my flatdeck, that held up better with the 350, big wheels and difflocks and shit, when I had that one built they got some good clamping pressure out of it, Beer Cruisers going to drop off the spare centreforce pressure plate sitting in his shed and I'll have a look at that as well
