Hey folks just after a bit of advise on the clutch side as thursday night i had to get recovered. Id been driving for about 2 hours and parked up and the car stalled then started up again and couldnt get a gear and had smoke coming out so had a look and seen oil and leaked out probably onto exhaust which caused the smoke. Had a look underneath and thought at first it was coming from the clutch slave cylinder so got recovered.

 

When i got back i had already put a bit of oil back in the clutch pot and i managed to get gears but seemed to be air in the system as the biting point was really low and struggling to disengage.

 

So today stripped the master and slave cylinders and cleaned them up as the thing wouldnt bleed. Ive put them back together and trying to bleed but getting no pressure at the slave cylinder which made me think about the clutch booster just before i came back in.

 

Is there anymore in the system im missing as i looked at manual and it talks about check valve but cant see that. I know i shud have tested the booster when i had the master cylinder off really cos that is a pain to get off.

 

Any ideas and help is great thanks

 

Marty

you`ll know if the boosters gone as it`ll leak air not fluid, best to either buy new units or refurb kits for the master, as slave is pretty cheap new anyway, you could also buy a stainless line from master to slave, if still no joy then problems in the bell housing

If I remember with mine there is two places you have to bleed it up from, one on the slave into the gearbox and one on the o/s inner wing, near the hicas unit, start with the bottom one,

yep just found the 2nd bleed point this morning and all seemed alot better so took it out for test drive.

 

Was doing ok then i went to change from reverse to first and nothing no resistance in the pedal and no oil leaked out so looked at bleeding it anyway and got no pressure coming out however only did the top bleed point.

 

I think it is either the booster unit or the master or slave cylinder so gonna look at changing them. Any ideas as to wether it could be the booster unit as im pretty sure this is a diaphragm type so if that has split will get no push on the master cylinder cheers folks

 

Marty