Red: Red Herring

Thought for sure that the cause of her dying on the shakedown run was simply a bad clutch.  Perhaps I was just remembering that first run on Ivy where the old friction plates disintegrated.

So went through all the work of pulling the right cover off, pulling the clutch and then disassembling it, only to find that it seemed just fine.

I did swap out the drive gear and both steel plates (installed one with the half moon) and reinstalled everything.  Hooked up the cable and got the same "crunchiness" I'd felt on the ride!

Only then did I realize it was the cable and not the clutch.  The cable swap was all of five minutes (swapped for the NOS one I'd been carrying in Ivy's bag) and so I'd spent hours pulling the clutch for nothing. 

With the oil out, I also tried swapping for a new alternator cover gasket to see if that would fix the leak (unfortunately, didn't seem to).