@butch-leal15 years ago
Racing Dickie Harrell at Pocono
@jack-thomas15 years ago
Looks like that Ford was running a little rich. Hard to believe Wally and I were standing on that line a few days ago.
@butch-leal15 years ago
It wasn't rich............it was a new clutch. In those days we had to seat the disc in and it was slipping......The smoke was not coming out of the headers but from the new clutch......never smoked again.
@butch-leal15 years ago
The clutches was a rag disc..........they smoked when they were new. After I left Ford, Chrysler's clutch disc did not smoke.......they were bonded and riveted. It was fun to have a new clutch with Ford to seat it in at a match race..........I was ready to go to Indy with two different clutches with NO SMOKE!
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Racing Dickie Harrell at Pocono
Looks like that Ford was running a little rich. Hard to believe Wally and I were standing on that line a few days ago.
It wasn't rich............it was a new clutch. In those days we had to seat the disc in and it was slipping......The smoke was not coming out of the headers but from the new clutch......never smoked again.
The clutches was a rag disc..........they smoked when they were new. After I left Ford, Chrysler's clutch disc did not smoke.......they were bonded and riveted. It was fun to have a new clutch with Ford to seat it in at a match race..........I was ready to go to Indy with two different clutches with NO SMOKE!