Clutch Problems

Vlade · Post by **Vlade** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:38 am

One thing I forgot to mention, if your clutch shudders it wears out the rubbers on the slave / master cylinders rather quickly and you'll start to experience problems...

Draco · Post by **Draco** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:03 am

I agree that there is a problem with your hidrolics, but if your hidrolics does not work because of air or what what....the only influence it will have is that your clutch won't disengage properly, your clutch won't slip, you won't be able to change gears as easely or not at all because your clutch won't disengage.

I bank on 1 of two things, either your setting on your pedal shaft going to the master cylinder is out to far or your pressure plate is to soft to keep you clutch ingaged, I have said it before, if you go for a button clutch or stronger upgraded clutch, a dubbel diafram pressure plate will garentee success, it will work with single but at some stage single will be too soft the handle the powa and it will start to slip.

I know some people are going to disagree, thats fine, lets not start again, this is my opinion and the person needing helps perogitive to follow or not.

Hope you get it sorted soon, whatever is wrong.

EightySix · Post by **EightySix** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:13 am

Also, what fluid do you guys normaly use? DOT 3 is recomended but can I just as well use DOT 4?

As far as I know if the car's manual reccomends DOT 3 then you can use
DOT 4 but if it reccomends DOT 4 you can't use DOT 3 .

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:57 pm

Thanks for all the info guys.

I'm going to be removing the clutch damper like veecee sugested while I'm working on the clutch. I couldn't find an article in the article sections of this forum but here are some other articles on how to do it for those interested:

http://garage.projectraine.com/content_ ... amper.html

http://www.zeroyon.com/index/content/view/32/47/

Veecee, how easy is it to bend that hard line? I don't wanna stuff it up.

Trance101 · Post by **Trance101** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 4:59 pm

Draco wrote:I bank on 1 of two things, either your setting on your pedal shaft going to the master cylinder is out to far or your pressure plate is to soft to keep you clutch ingaged, I have said it before, if you go for a button clutch or stronger upgraded clutch, a dubbel diafram pressure plate will garentee success, it will work with single but at some stage single will be too soft the handle the powa and it will start to slip.

I may just have to go with a double diafram pressure plate if I can't get it to stop slipping.

veecee · Post by **veecee** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 5:50 pm

if you take it easy and go slow it will be fine.

be careful and stop immediately if it looks like the line is going to kink, but i found it fairly easy!