Struth its all happening to us lately 
We had a run tonight and on the way home we stopped at the "Railway Crossing" in the village, once the gates opened we tried to engage 1st gear and "Nothing", I just could not get into any gear, Arghhh! I had to stop the engine, engage first and then start her up, after a "kangeroo" pull off I slicked it clutchlessly into 2nd and drove home in without changing gear again.
We checked the cable, Pawl, pedal etc and finally decided that our problem was more serious and needed the clutch changing.
With all the ancilliary bits removed the engine was very quickly lifted out of the car, we seperated the Engine from the Gearbox and it was a piece of piss to remove.
Well the Thrust bearing does not look too healthy....
And the spring fingers are also worn quite a bit, and if you look closely you will see the "Spigot Bearing" is totally Knackered.
Right Dad you need to get me a new Clutch tomorrow!!!!!
While the engine was out it gave us a good chance to tidy the car up. The engine mounts had developed a coating of surface rust and there was a few bits coming through on the steering shaft but nothing drastic. Another slight problem we had was a weeping Brake Master cylinder, We had a brand new spare one off "2B (2)" but it was slightly different to our Lucas one, we took it to our mate Steve of "High Q" in Gainsborough who confirmed it was a suitable replacement for our leaky item.
Bleeding the brakes was easy using our "EasyBleed" set, well recommended.
The spigot bearing was a bugger to get out, Our mate Chris Brown had suggested that we try an old tried and trusted method of filling the void with grease and knocking a tight fitting bolt into the middle pushing the grease outwards and backwards which in turn "Hopefully" pushes the old bearing out.
In this case it did not work so we had to resort to a small Chisel, it was really awkward because the lip of the bearing housing came away easily but that left not much of the body for the chisel to cut through. Got there in the end though.
We gave the block another coating of Blue Hammerite
And then Joey fitted the nice new Clutch bought from "Monsons Motor Factors", Afterwards we found out that the "Brand new Clutch assembly" fitted to our second 2B (1800 Pinto) was the same as the 2 Ltr "Could have saved us some Money there !
We used the tried and trusted method of lighning up the clutch thrust plate with our Fingers 
and it worked !
Then he torqued up the mounting bolts (Look at that concentration)
Next we fitted the nice new "Thrust Bearing", seems a shame to cover all these new bits up eh?
Next it was time to fit the Engine, it went together a lot easier than the last time when we fitted the Engine and Gearbox together. It took a bit of time lining it up and in the end we pulled the whole lot together using the mounting bolts a bit at a time "Top Job"
Once the Engine was fitted it was time for all the other bits and bobs that were removed or disconnected, here we see the steering shaft connection, Rather than re using the Tab Washer we decided to wire lock the bolts together, they won't come loose now eh!
When we were taking out the Engine we noticed some cracks in Joeys Exhaust Heat Shield, Here we see how Joey has sorted it out by fitting more substantial angles to hopefully prevent further cracking.
Here is the underside of the Heatshield showing the Clutch Cable Guide which stops us melting Cables on the Hot Exhaust
In no time at all most of the bits were back in place, just waiting for the Brake master Cylinder now
