Clutch engagment issues on my 110 2.5na

Hi All
Yesterday i bought my first land rover, a 1985 110 with the 2.5na diesel.
I think it had been sat for a while but wasn't very rusty and drove around the block fine so i bought it and drove it the 120 miles home.
While on the motorway home i noticed that sometimes when i accelerated hard or when going up hill the car felt like the clutch was slipping, in that it would rev but not really accelerate, it was only slight so i didn't know if i was making it up or not at the time.
Then when pulling off the motorway it didn't seem to go into gear and i had to pull over, i got it going again fairly quickly though. After some driving around last night showing off my new toy, we parked it up for the night, only to try and drive it today and find it was stuck again.

Exactly what's happening is i press the clutch in, put it in gear (it feels like its slotting into gear) and then pull the clutch up and the car behaves like i haven't bought the clutch up. When sat idling i can hear a chatter underneath that goes away when i press the clutch in.
If i pump the pedal it does start to engage and i can get it to drive up to about 10 mph but after that it's all slip.

The clutch pedal has pressure, the clutch master cylinder reservoir is full almost to the top with fluid and has been like that since yesterday.
I was about to try and bleed the slave cylinder but was really struggling to get a spanner on the nipple and gave up once it got dark.

If anyone has any ideas that could help then let me know, i really want to drive my new toy!

Thanks
Jelly

Try bleeding it for starters but it sounds like your clutch is on its way out

If it was a hydraulic issue you'd have trouble disengaging the clutch rather than the other way around.

Sounds rather more like the clutch itself.

Bugger, i was hoping i'd hear suggestions of replacing the master and slave cylinder, does anyone think that's worth trying or go straight to new clutch?
Could it not be possible that the slave has stuck with the clutch disengaged and now wont engage it again?

Is replacing the clutch a driveway job? For ref it has the R380 gearbox.

Engine forwards or gearbox backwards the choice is yours. Obviously you'll need a hoist if your moving the engine but that's my preferred method

Jelly said:

Bugger, i was hoping i'd hear suggestions of replacing the master and slave cylinder, does anyone think that's worth trying or go straight to new clutch?
Could it not be possible that the slave has stuck with the clutch disengaged and now wont engage it again?

Is replacing the clutch a driveway job? For ref it has the R380 gearbox.

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Like he says, engine out or gearbox out.
I would go with engine out too.

You can do it anywhere, but you need a hoist, or if its on bad ground, a front loader.

Thanks for all the advice. I wound up pulling the slave cylinder off to find the piston is completely seized in the down position. Very strange as i can only find examples of this happening where the piston is stuck outwards.
I've got a new Bearmach one turning up tomorrow so hopefully it will be all better soon