My daily driver is an old J plate Sierra 2.0 ghia. It's got about 86,000 on the clock (got all the receipts) and has been good as gold all year I've owned it. The other week I noticed a 'squeeky rattle' every time I pressed the clutch pedal and thought I'd get it looked at some time soon......then of course it let me down in the high street during rush hour.POO! :x: It would not select any gear, until I switched off, put it in gear and re-started the engine. It then worked OK while I limped it 200 yards down the road to a handy garage (owned by some 'friends' of mine :xxx: )

 

They said that not only had the clutch gone, but also the 'spiggot' bearing behind the flywheel :confused: It took them a few days to get it sorted as they said that it took them over 6 HOURS to get this spiggot bearing off the shaft. Anyway, I finally got it back along with a bill for £80.00 for the clutch, £15 for the bearing and £200 labour.

 

It was shit. The gear stick bounced all over the place, the whole car felt like you're going over a cattle grid, especially when you are 'free-wheeling' at low speed (sub 25mph) with the clutch pressed in. I took it back to them and they said that they had not lined up the prop shaft at the reat of the car to the correct mark, but had already done so at the front, and it was all ok now.......LIKE HELL. It chugs and vibrates like crazy.

 

Any ideas? :confused:

BTTT

 

I knew I should have got an AUTO!!!!! rather than one of these piss-ant MANUALS!!!! Just goes to show how SHIT manual cars are!!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Introducing a bit of controversy to get some notice on this thread :tongue:

 

So, any ideas what I should be telling them to look at while I beat their heads against the front wing? :smash: :p

Just give it to them and tell them to sort it and your not paying, they have not done there job propperly and need to rectifie their mistakes.

 

Its not your job to tell them how to fix a car for gods sake THEY are the mechanics!

Do a manual to auto conversion. I think you would be the first person on here that is done one. ;)

Do a manual to auto conversion. I think you would be the first person on here that is done one. ;)

 

 

LOL! Now there's a plan...... ;)

Auto driver breaks clutch shocker! :rofl:

Congratulations on breaking another ford, not a great challange but every little helps. :smash:

 

Drivin Ivan

spiggot bearing is the one in the centre of the flywheel where the primary shaft of the g box goes..

http://www.theimpclub.co.uk/articles/spigot_bush.html

doubt this would cause your prob though..

spiggot bearing is the one in the centre of the flywheel where the primary shaft of the g box goes..

http://www.theimpclub.co.uk/articles/spigot_bush.html

doubt this would cause your prob though..

 

 

Thanks for that! :)