Lotus Carlton

VXR8

 

 

Exhaust

Changing Hydraulic Clutch Fluid

Bonnet Vents

LS9 Clutch

Intercooler Reservoir Tank

Intercooler Pump

 

 

 

 

LS9 Twin Plate Clutch

Slave Cylinder    Friction Plates    Flywheel    Pressure Plate    Install

Install

 

These little clips that retain pins holding the gear lever assy to

gearbox were a little tricky to remove, certainly designed not to

come loose by accident !

 

  

Pretty standard job to be honest. I did buy a steel twin plate clutch alignment

tool, invaluable! Remove exhaust centre from cats to rear boxes, disconnect prop,

remove heat shield to make access a little easier, disconnect a few loom plugs.

Gearbox will tilt back slightly when cross member is taken off. Gearbox is unbolted

from the bell housing, then when out of the way, the bell housing can come off.

this took a little time as one of the alignment dowls was very tight, lots of wiggling the

housing to get it free ! The stock hydraulic pipe needs to be swapped to the new ls9

slave cylinder, and the pipe bent slightly to fit.

 

Std slave setup.

 

LS9 slave, good time to fit the remote bleed hose, and you can see the bend in the pipe

to exit the gearbox aperture in the same place.

 

Flywheel bolted up, bolts, 20 then 50 then 100 nm

 

Notice the proper bearing for gearbox spigot !  

 

Clutch cover bolts, 70nm