Toyota Clutch Slave Cylinder Retainer

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<p>Toyota was nice enough to make a clutch slave cylinder that is almost impossible to secure with a clamp. Even if you do manage to get a c-clamp to fit, it's precarious and clunky and, since you have to move the slave cylinder assembly out of the way to drop the transmission, you're basically asking for a puddle of hydraulic or brake fluid.</p> <p>If you search google for a tool to keep the clutch slave cylinder from sliding out while you're swapping your transmission... you'll come up empty.</p> <p>Thankfully, I'm not the sort to put up with that.</p> <p>Print this tool with 10-20 percent infill, no supports required, and retain it on the slave cylinder with the fasteners that originally secured it to the transmission. Now you can safely move it out of the way and drop that C5x transmission!</p> <p>Please warn your shop buddies not to depress the clutch pedal if you have this installed. It's tough enough to retain the pin if no additional force is applied, but if you press the clutch while this is installed, you WILL break the device and gain the aforementioned puddle of brake fluid.</p> <p>Note, the holes are 8mm and may or may not engage thread on your bolts. My test print took the bolts like a champ and they're in there well enough that I'm not worried about it falling off. If your prints are dimensionally awful, worry not. Poke those bolts through and secure it with a zip-tie or whatnot.</p> <h3>Print Settings</h3> <p><strong>Printer Brand:</strong></p> <p>Anet</p> <p class="detail-setting printer"><strong>Printer: </strong> <div><p>A8</p></div> <p><strong>Rafts:</strong></p> <p>No</p> <p class="detail-setting supports"><strong>Supports: </strong> <div><p>No</p></div> <p><strong>Resolution:</strong></p> <p>I printed it at .2.</p> <p class="detail-setting infill"><strong>Infill: </strong> <div><p>10% to 20% seems fine.</p></div> <p><strong>Filament:</strong> 3DSolutech is pictured PLA "Camo Green"</p> <p><br/> <p class="detail-setting notes"><strong>Notes: </strong></p> </p><div><p>Material is almost irrelevant. I wouldn't use ninjaflex for this print, personally, but anything stiffer is probably fine.</p> Also - wow! Thingiverse finally acknowledges that the Anet printers exist! <p>Don't take that as an endorsement - Anet printers are dumpster fires. I only use this one because I'm a man who likes to live dangerously...</p> </div></p></p></p> Category: Tools