Clutch pushing rod + plastic clip

Hello!I have a Land Rover Discovery 2 Td5 (year 2000) with 5 speed manual gear box. Last week I got into the car and when I started it I coudn't put in to any gear. The clutch was soft, it didn’t have any resistance. I asked in a bulgarian forum for Discos and they recommended to change the master and slave cylinders. I was in no hurry and the next day I tried to bleed the slave cylinder myself, everything seemed to be alright with it but the problem remained all the same.
Then I ordered the slave cylinder and tried to replace it and this happened.....................The whole pushing rod came out with the plastic clip. Now I'm very worried because there are different variations of this stupid clip, some of them are made from metal wire but mine is just plastic. I didn't find solutions for this exactly plastick clip.
Now, please, can somebody help me and give me some good advice on how to put it back in place and not to brake it? I searched and coudn't find this plastic **** anywhere in my country.

In short, I will be very grateful to you for any help or some useful advice! Thanks!

Hi, seems that the clip got soft and slipped off from the fork's "neck", you'll have to remove the rod from the slave and try to push back the rod with clip onto the fork then refit the cylinder... can be hard in situ, you'll have to find a proper ID piece of metal/copper pipe(iirc 1/2") to slide on the rod as to keep the clip fixed to it's ball end then push the whole thing against the fork untill the clip is fixed then remove the pipe, or improvise somehow to achieve that, the two "claws" of that clip must "grab" the fork's neck if you see what i mean, i dont know how to explain better... these plastic clips are the originals(p/n 576723), the steel ones are from HD kits. Good luck

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Check that the push rod hasn't worn through the release arm, first.

I lost that plastic clip from mine many moons ago and it's been fine so I wouldn't worry.
Make sure the ball is seated on the fork and slide the slave cylinder down the rod and it will be fine. It's happened twice to me, first time 6 years ago when swapping the slave cylinder. The rod gets pulled by the rubber boot on the slave and pulled the clip off the rod and it was like that for 50k miles. More recently I had to do the clutch and fitted a replacement gearbox at the same time along with a new fork etc. The box leaked so when I swapped it for another leak free box somewhere in the job the clip just disappeared. Since I was hiring a ramp by the hour I just had to put it together as was. That was 3 years ago and 25k miles ago.

Never had the slightest problem. It's not tricky to get the rod in either so you'll be fine.

If anyone wants to snap on the 576723 clip and have a 3D printer, I've crated and shared the models of tool here: https://www.printables.com/model/1043795-discovery-2-clutch-slave-rod-clip-install-tool