Help sourcing clutch arm?

Seymour Snerd

Lifetime Supporter
I'm fitting a ZFQ transaxle to a Quicktime bellhousing, in turn behind an FE engine. The Quaife cross-shaft comes with a clutch arm leaning outward about 45 degrees in order to accomodate the Quaife bell housing's method of mounting the slave cylinder vertically on the bell housing.

In my situation it makes more sense to mount the slave cylinder longitudinally beneath the half-shafts, and for that I need a "straight" clutch arm. I'm a bit at a loss as to where to look for one to fit the Quaife splines. The cross shaft splines are 0.58" dia, 39 splines. Arm length needs to be about 2".

Where, other than Quaife themselves, would I look?

(Why not Quaife? They have a somewhat-usable alternative, but its delivered price to USA is simply stunning.).
 

Ian Anderson

Lifetime Supporter
Is it their price or the shipping that is scary?

If just the freight then perhaps get it to someone in the UK and have them ship it over - if need be I'd help

Ian
 

Seymour Snerd

Lifetime Supporter
Is it their price or the shipping that is scary?

If just the freight then perhaps get it to someone in the UK and have them ship it over - if need be I'd help

Ian

Thanks much for the offer. It's really a combination of it's being about 25% too long, costing 50 GBP and then another 50 GBP to ship the 6-oz object to USA (air post is 13 GBP). So given the first two reservations I don't really want to put any one over there through all that just to save me ~35 GBP. The shipping charge is just adding insult to injury. :-) Besides, for that money I would just cut and re-weld the one I have.

What I'm hoping is that someone will remember something like "that's the same spline as a '67 Cortina, MG TC and Jag SS-100" or "XYZ stock all kinds of clutch arms."

Hmmm... what are you "real" ZF guys using for this (either cross-arm setup or just the clutch arm itself)?
 

Jim Rosenthal

Supporter
You might try Dennis Quella at Pantera Performance, in Colorado. Or Ron McCall (Pantera1889 on this forum) Both of these guys are very familiar with ZF boxes and may be able to help you. I don't know if either of them has seen a ZFQ though.
 
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