Clutch Lubricator

[Ian McGowan]

Please correct me if I am wrong, but doesn't the oil tube just feed to the gearbox nosepiece?

It lubricates the track the release bearing slides on, but not the bearing itself.

So how is the bearing lubricated?   Pete feels that his is noisy because it needs oil.

I have run a much noisier one on Alice for some time now - I suspect they go on for ever in that condition.

Trust me, Simon, they do not go on forever unlubricated. Some years ago, in a friends chummy on the way to the VSCC Welsh Weekend, we had the clutch release bearing give up at a set of traffic lights. When we stripped it down, at home, all the balls in the race had disintegrated into rusty dust without a trace of oil. My friend confessed to having never lubricated the bearing within his ownership. I have owned that car now for 11 years and lubricate the release bearing every few hundred miles.