MuddyMat
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Hi All, strange things happening with my clutch. Any insight or advice would be very much appreciated.
Just had a new manual gearbox fitted. During reassembly the garage called and said the master and slave cylinders were shot so recommended replacement. I agreed to this.
Also, the car only had a new good quality clutch about 20k miles ago, so we didn’t change that.
Get the car back, when pushing the clutch down there is very little resistance until almost at the bottom. It feels like the travel when in the resistance zone is only about 2” or 4cm.
Getting into 1st and reverse are very tight. Worse when cold.
Drive it like this for a day…
Next day, pulling away, just finding the biting point in 1st and there is this pop, and the car lurches and stalls. I’ve still got the clutch peddle about an inch of the floor.
Then, into neutral, start engine, back into first and the clutch feels different. The resistance when pushing it down now starts much higher, like it used to… If say there is 6” total travel on the clutch peddle, now the resistance starts much higher, around 4” instead of the 2” I had before the pop.
The gear selection is also easier.
I’m racking my brain… what can that have been?
It’s like a return spring was maybe stuck, or the piston in the cylinder was stuck… and now it’s freed itself.
About an hour later I’m parallel parking, enjoying my new found easy gear selection and for a second the peddle feels different again. Perhaps a bit squishy…. But the garage tells me the system has been blead properly… and then it pops again. My clutch peddle is practically on the floor but just for a second I lurch forward almost hitting the car in front and the engine stalls.
Then its fine again for about an hour driving around town.
Same thing happened again later in the day. So that’s 3 times now.
I’m stumped… I’m hopping (perhaps foolishly) that it’s a teething gremlin and will disappear on its own with a little more use.
If anyone has any thoughts about what this could be then I’d love to hear from you.
Many thanks
Mat
Just had a new manual gearbox fitted. During reassembly the garage called and said the master and slave cylinders were shot so recommended replacement. I agreed to this.
Also, the car only had a new good quality clutch about 20k miles ago, so we didn’t change that.
Get the car back, when pushing the clutch down there is very little resistance until almost at the bottom. It feels like the travel when in the resistance zone is only about 2” or 4cm.
Getting into 1st and reverse are very tight. Worse when cold.
Drive it like this for a day…
Next day, pulling away, just finding the biting point in 1st and there is this pop, and the car lurches and stalls. I’ve still got the clutch peddle about an inch of the floor.
Then, into neutral, start engine, back into first and the clutch feels different. The resistance when pushing it down now starts much higher, like it used to… If say there is 6” total travel on the clutch peddle, now the resistance starts much higher, around 4” instead of the 2” I had before the pop.
The gear selection is also easier.
I’m racking my brain… what can that have been?
It’s like a return spring was maybe stuck, or the piston in the cylinder was stuck… and now it’s freed itself.
About an hour later I’m parallel parking, enjoying my new found easy gear selection and for a second the peddle feels different again. Perhaps a bit squishy…. But the garage tells me the system has been blead properly… and then it pops again. My clutch peddle is practically on the floor but just for a second I lurch forward almost hitting the car in front and the engine stalls.
Then its fine again for about an hour driving around town.
Same thing happened again later in the day. So that’s 3 times now.
I’m stumped… I’m hopping (perhaps foolishly) that it’s a teething gremlin and will disappear on its own with a little more use.
If anyone has any thoughts about what this could be then I’d love to hear from you.
Many thanks
Mat
