Trying to save some cash when doing certain jobs on cars can work but some times its a false economy.

 

Case in point yes a 350z I know but at least its a z so moving on, having had a new clutch fitted 2 months previous by one of the High street clutch specialists the owner thought her big spends were over for a while, however when changing the clutch the garage had recomended she had a new slave cylinder fitted, the cost been around £120 extra, the owner concidered it an extra cost they would rather not pay for so the box was fitted and all seemed well. Of course the clutch pedal failed in under 500 miles and was subsequently recovered from the M6 slip road at junction 9, been so close to us the AA dropped it outside with a note to explain.

 

Now the savings are now lost as unfortunely for this owner on her particular year 350z the slave cylinder that had failed is the concentric type, and to those not in the know that means its on the gearbox mainshaft and required the box to be removed......again!

 

The good thing is the 350z gearbox comes out easily, with some clever clips and brackets making it a nice job, the slave cylinder was removed and was leaking a lot and no wonder there was no pedal.

 

Once fitted up and gearbox back in the master cylinder was filled up and with fresh fluid and the bleeding started, the slave has a remote bleed nipple that comes back out of the gearbox so easy to get to but requires a different way of bleeding to that of a z32, basically with the nipple closed a second operator rapidly pumps the clutch up to 20 times and then holds it down whilst the first operator opens the bleed nipple, the pressure that had been built up shoots the fluid into the system really well, normal bleeding just does not work.

 

So once all bled and a road test the owner paid over the phone and we recovered the car back to her home, a few hundred quid extra that could of been done 2 months before when the box was out....ah well.

 

Jeff TT

 

 

 

 

 

 

how much to rent out your ramp and trans jack, need to change my clutch lol.

 

To be fair, she had no way of knowing how long it would of lasted her, im sure with today's current climate, she most likely asked "whats the likely hood of it going just yet" and they most likely just advised her, that it may or may not, but would be better to have it done as a matter of course. but like most people, if its not broke, don't fix it so to speak.

 

Well, unless there was clear signs of imminent failure.

how much to rent out your ramp and trans jack, need to change my clutch lol.

 

To be fair, she had no way of knowing how long it would of lasted her, im sure with today's current climate, she most likely asked "whats the likely hood of it going just yet" and they most likely just advised her, that it may or may not, but would be better to have it done as a matter of course. but like most people, if its not broke, don't fix it so to speak.

 

Well, unless there was clear signs of imminent failure.

 

 

That's a fair point I suppose

would a new clutch put any different pressure on a slave cylinder, and to be honest for £120 (and me being skint that is a lot) if the box is off then its worth it

 

we wouldnt do a cambelt without changing the water pump and so forth would ya? Its not just the price of the part to be fitted but the cost of doing all the work again to get to the part

 

but i can see where ya coming from regarding the current climate and money and so forth being as tight as it is, thats the good thing about the net and forums, we would have researched the full cost and problems and what to do's for a job like this so would have been prepared for extra costs?

would a new clutch put any different pressure on a slave cylinder, and to be honest for £120 (and me being skint that is a lot) if the box is off then its worth it

 

we wouldnt do a cambelt without changing the water pump and so forth would ya? Its not just the price of the part to be fitted but the cost of doing all the work again to get to the part

 

but i can see where ya coming from regarding the current climate and money and so forth being as tight as it is, thats the good thing about the net and forums, we would have researched the full cost and problems and what to do's for a job like this so would have been prepared for extra costs?

 

Yep, but most people dont do forums, so they fail to realise things like that. at least the jobs sorted now, shes going to be happy.

yeah i know they dont, i only said thats the good thing about forums lol

Whenever this type clutch is changed u should change the slave cylinder, the pressure on new plate and maybe pushing at slightly different angle the buggers end up popping.

Normally end up having to change your new clutch again too, fluid bursts over friction plate and contaminates it, similar to rear brake shoes when a cylinder goes, then they start breaking up..

 

I fitted a new clutch in an astravan for my old boss, the tight git went euro car parts bought cheapest cylinder they do, job i was doing was mobile mechanic, so after my days work fitted it in a car park in Walthamstow.

It didn't make it out the car park before it burst,

 

I took it back to euros and they said they had loads of the cheaper ones do it.

Got the dearer one and fitted next night with no problems..

 

Think it was like 45 for cheaper or 65 the better one and I ended up doing job twice wasn't amused..