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Originally Posted by Dennisfly
35 Tudor Sedan. Depending on my clutch technique, I sometimes have some minor chatter when starting out, more so in reverse. A friend suggested that I need to adjust the ant-chatter rods. I looked at the rods and they appear to be fixed with an eyelet at the rear X frame adjustment and at the front they attach to the bell housing with a ridge on the rod and a castellated nut. I don't see any accommodation for an adjustment. They don't appear to be loose. Am I missing something?
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Dennis .... There is no specific adjustment, as such, but they certainly can be adjusted to hold different, directional tension on the engine/trans assembly. I'll show the stock type set-up BELOW, just for general principles. The second picture is actually a NON-STOCK set-up shown on an 8BA engine which was put into an earlier chassis. The second set-up shows more-clearly how you could possibly bias the tension in one direction or the other, or pre-load the engine/trans assembly in one direction or another.
The second picture shows how you could pre-load the rods to push (or pull) against the stops using the two lock nuts on either side of engine. Not sure it would do any good, though. I've never played with this situation.
As Seth noted in post #2, a lot of times what you have is caused by a yucky flywheel surface.
Coop
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