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Juergen

Hallo,
I need re-corking the clutch disc of my 1932 Hudson coupe. I tried to come in touch with Doug Wildrick and sent him several emails, unfortunately I got no answer since a few day. Did he change his email adress ? Perhaps somebody knows what´s the matter ? Here in germany this system is not well known, I am a bit afraid to use technical cork, nobody here has experiences with this problem.

Regards from germany
Juergen

46HudsonPU

If you have a Facebook account, you may want to visit the 'Hudson Essex Terraplane Club' on Facebook (link in my signature below).
There are some older posts (Early April) that show one of the members doing their own cork refacing -

Here are a couple of links to pictures he posted of the process he used. From the conversation thread, he indicated that he obtained the cork he used on his clutch from a medical supplies company (?)...

http://www.facebook.com/groups/16027154035/10150858621069036/#!/photo.php?fbid=3317701273771&set=o.16027154035&type=3&theater

http://www.facebook.com/groups/16027154035/10150858621069036/#!/photo.php?fbid=3317703633830&set=o.16027154035&type=3&theater

Jon B

Juergen:

Here is the website for Doug Wildrick: http://www.wildrickrestoration.com/

The e-mail address shown there, should be correct.

Lee ODell

46 HudsonPU thanks for the link. I always wondered how the cork was installed on the clutch disk.
Lee O'Dell

ralpie

I recently visited with a forklift mechanic. One of the facts about forklift operation is they use fluid clutches. Sound familiar? The clutches use cork mounted into a steel disc! after a bit of discussion I learned my new aquaintance also rebuilds these discs. Still will go to Doug and Ron for Hudson work, but nice to know there are craftsmen nearby who can cork Hudson clutches too.

Uncle Josh

I just had one done by Ron Fellows. Ads in WTN. Nice job. Sent him my core and had it back within a week in NYS

hudnutz39@sbcglobal.net

Clutch guy

Try emailing me?. I don't know why it wouldn't come thru. I have been very busy in the shop and also we have been out of town for a few days in St.Louis. Sorry you couldn't reach us. Thanks Doug

Terraplane33

Very interesting topic & pictures ! Thanks !

ESSX28-1 · ESSX28-1 May 2012 Posts: 995Platinum Member

Huddy 42 (Les P) in Australia has talked about a system using bonded sheet cork. I'm told it works well, but why go away from the original method? Geoff Clark in NZ also recorks clutches in the traditional way. He increases the density of the cork (& presumably the life of the clutch) by compressing the corks after they've been inserted

Huddy42

Dave Y, the reason we went away from the original cork idea, was the problem of buying decent corks, many yeears ago my father made a special machine to insert the corks under air through a tube set up which he designed, we used to boil the corks in hot water and old sump oil, then he would grind the corks in a lathe and then compress them as Geoff does, this method was 100% BUT, the main problem was that every second or third cork would snap in half and we wasted more corks than we fitted. I have had one of the bonded plates in my '42 Hudson for over 23 years now with not a problem, I have done dozens and dozens over the years using this method and only had one complaint, still doing them today but, if you can buy good corks go for it. When we were doing the cork set up, I would like a dollar for every cork that I put in a Hudson/Terraplane cluch over the 30 or 40 years that we did them. I could be well and truly retired .LOL

Geoff C., N.Z.

Les is right about using quality corks. I recently bought a quantity of corks from Widget, and these are the best quality corks I have ever had. Even with the 2nd-rate corks Ihad before, I only ever used to break about two or three per plate, so technique in insertion is important.
Geoff

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