CY7 Clutch Linkage

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Tellico is a reputable outfit. Not sure if it's the same brand as the one some of the folks in our club are running on CJs, but they swear by 'em.

Jerry McG ( snipped-for-privacy@frontier.net) wrote on Monday 11 October 2004

Yeah, but beware if you ever have to return a defective product to Tellico. They never return calls (still waiting after leaving three messages and talking to a rep twice a month and a half ago) and their web site is usually busted, so you can't contact them via that either.

After buying about $1000 worth of stuff from them, they're now at the bottom of my list of places to buy from. I don't care if it costs more - the only time I'll buy from them now is if I can't find it anywhere else. This over a $15 turn signal switch that wouldn't work in the "lane change" position. I keep it in my Jeep as a reminder not to buy from them. I curse their name every time I change lanes.

Try Tri-County Gear in Pomona CA. Jason has been manufacturing and marketing a heim-joint replacement clutch rod for years. I have had one since 1988 - no problems at all.

Robert Bills KG6LMV Orange County CA

'83 CJ-7 '46 Bantam BT3C '87 Ford F250 4x4 Diesel

I have no experience with the company you asked about, but I made my own heim joint clutch linkage and it works really good.

I bought a piece of stuff called all-thread. It's like a bolt, but 3 or 4 ft long and has no head, just threads. I bought the fine-thread version. Then at the same hardware store, I found a heim joint that mysteriously had the same thread as the all-thread. I cut the all-thread to the desired length, and presto chango, clutch linkage that has never broken again.

My application is the '81 CJ5 with the 258 and mechanical clutch linkage.

Interesting option. Did the all-thread rod just happen to allow attachment of the jamnut adjuster ? If not how did you (1) adjust the length and (2) connect to the throwout arm ?

Thanks

I have used all thread to build part of a CJ clutch linkage for a Mustang T5 and it threaded right on to the parts including the jam nut.

Mike

breyfogle wrote:

The fine thread that I found was the same as the adjuster, so it all screwed together like it was engineered that way.

Amen, brother. I have never been more disappointed with any business, ever, than with Tellico 4X4. They have the sorriest customer service I've ever had the displeasure to deal with. They do not stand behind defective products they sell. In my case, they advertised falsely, sending me a different brand product, then would not take it back or make it right when I discovered it was defective, saying it was advertised as a "factory second". I sent them the very e-mailed ad they sent me proving them liars about the brand and the "free shipping" that cost me $32 and the factory second status. None of that was true.

TrailMarker?

I do that too, but it usually is dry by the time I come back.