The plan was to fit the rover and toyo 5 speed to my mk2 escort but when I crashed the bike I flagged the project and kept the motor/5 speed. Now I have the capri but not the leg . The plan now was to fit a 4hp22 but Im hung up on the manual thing so I did a bit of mucking about trying to fit a hand operated master cyl off a motorbike to the gear lever but I was unable to get the required travel at the thrust bearing without excessive hand lever effort. I believe a twin or triple plate clutch has a bit less spring pressure and thusly less lever effort..... but just how much I dont know.
Any body out there have any experience or even a helpful hint . I dont feel like coughing up1500 bucks to find out its no better ... or not better enough.
Thanks
Had the crash in 09 but didnt get the chop until 19 ( right leg above knee ). In the meantime I could still drive manual ( with a non union femur ) so that was ok . After the chop , now driving auto ( until insurance renewal time )using left foot insurance insisted that I could not drive a normal car and had to have a left foot accelerator fitted ...., connected by a cable so that when I folded the left one down the right one folded up and vice versa .....but it was ok to drive 400km to Christchurch to get it fitted , and this was after I had been driving just using left foot . When you dont have a right foot getting in the way this is easy . Even with the left foot acc I still used the normal acc pedal as the leftie was problematic in that when there is a pedal under my left foot my brain kept thinking it was a clutch ( like the 1st 40 years ) just ask them German tourists that had to leap for their lives as I powered up over the footpath whilst parking in Queenstown .
