Morning peeps ,
Story so far : Whilst driving back from car feast a few weeks ago , sat in slow moving traffic I lost gears . Managed to get onto hardshoulder . After a little bit of wiggling and huffing and puffing got the discovery 300tdi T reg back on the road and home . It's been working ( ok ish ) ever since . When I say ok , the clutch peddle comes half to 3 quarters of the way up and I needed to pull it the rest of the way up with my toe , not all the time , I'd say 50 percent .
Parking up last week outside my house the clutch went again ,this time WENT! Peddle stayed down and couldn't pull it up , ended up pushing car into parking spot .
My first instinct is the clutch fork has gone ( only replaced it 2 years ago ,however ......)
Stage I'm at now .... car taken to bits. Up to the point of removing gearbox to get to fork. However upon inspection of bell housing I've noticed oil dripping from bottom of housing ( clean oil not black engine ) .
Now while removing slave clutch cylinder the rubber bit at the end fell into bell housing .
MYQUESTION IS : A:If the slave cylinder had failed would it of caused symptoms above .
B : should I crack on and change / look at clutch folk anyway
The reason why I'm asking is it took me 3 days to reconnect gear box to engine last time I did this , which was a REAL pain in the backside .
This is my only car so need to get it back on road asap .

THANKS IN ADVANCE FOR ANY ADVICE GIVEN .

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Hi disco
If it were mine I would TRY the Cheep Fix & try the Slave cyl FIRST £12/£15 ! wot you got to loose ?
Sounds like its crakerd (slave cyl) when you get the rubber out I think it will be soft & sqwigy & if you look at the master cyl I think you will find a loss off fluid !
Just my thoughts some may have others

Steve

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Agreed.

You can often tell the difference between dot4 and oil, simply because of the texture of it - dot4 is sticky and smells rather different too. Slave cylinders are cheap enough really!

If it is the slave, you might have an interesting smell from the clutch as it burns all that dot4 off

slave first,then the bigger job if no success

surely if the slave was knackered so it was sticking in the extended state this would have no effect on making the pedal stick down as the OP said he couldnt force the clutch pedal up, if you pressed the clutch down and then clamped the flexy to stop the slave from returning the pedal will still lift back up, I would of thought the fault is at the pedal/clutch master cyl

Is the pedal still stuck down? if so crack open the bleed nipple on the slave and if the pedal is still stuck down etc... thats rules out the slave cyl and clutch etc...

Go for a good quality slave and master cylinder too. OEM like trw lucas