I am looking through the previous owner's pile of pressure plates. He has TR3 pressure plates and the original Standard Vanguard pressure plate. The SV pressure plate has a large metal ring in the center which apparently rides against the throw-out bearing. The TR3 pressure plate has 3 large metal fingers and looks like it wouldn't mate well to the throw-out bearing (like a big alloy bushing with a carbon insert). The previous owner has emotional attachments to his Morgan parts and still has a basket case flat rad +4 that he disassembled for a disk brake upgrade in 1962. He won't part with the original Standard Vanguard pressure plate. The replacements I've seen are the later TR3 style.
Has anyone put in the later TR3 style pressure plate with the original Morgan Moss box throw out bearing? Does it work? It it necessary to have the ring in the center for the TO bearing to ride on? See the jpegs.
TIA (Thanks In Advance)

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Standard Vanguard and later TR3 pressure plates.
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Standard Vanguard pressure plate showing ring in center.

Bill Brewer