STEVE PEARSAON
New Member
Gents.
Help needed.
This weekend, with the help of a couple of competent but reluctant friends, I put a new clutch kit in my Defender TD5. The old one was snatching and the thrust bearing was making a hell of a din. This was the first time any of us had done a Land Rover and owing to the fact that you have to take half the vehicle apart, it took us most of the day.
Anyway, when it all eventually went back together and time to try it.. Nothing! I couldn't get any gears. The only way to get drive was to put it in gear and start it up, obviously as soon as you turned the key you were off, which is how I got it out of the workshop we were borrowing and to my mates house where it has been whilst we had a rethink.
The mate that had dealt with the slave cylinder thought it was knackered at the time, so we blamed that and I got a new one which went on the next day. Unfortunately it is still exactly the same, the clutch won't clear. We have bled it several times, the pedal feels about right. We have also gone right back through everything, asking ourselves all the basics, like did we put everything in the right way round etc.
So we are stumped, I am struggling to get to work and all that, and would really like to hear from anyone who has had this problem and knows wht need doing...
Cheers in anticipation.
SP.
Help needed.
This weekend, with the help of a couple of competent but reluctant friends, I put a new clutch kit in my Defender TD5. The old one was snatching and the thrust bearing was making a hell of a din. This was the first time any of us had done a Land Rover and owing to the fact that you have to take half the vehicle apart, it took us most of the day.
Anyway, when it all eventually went back together and time to try it.. Nothing! I couldn't get any gears. The only way to get drive was to put it in gear and start it up, obviously as soon as you turned the key you were off, which is how I got it out of the workshop we were borrowing and to my mates house where it has been whilst we had a rethink.
The mate that had dealt with the slave cylinder thought it was knackered at the time, so we blamed that and I got a new one which went on the next day. Unfortunately it is still exactly the same, the clutch won't clear. We have bled it several times, the pedal feels about right. We have also gone right back through everything, asking ourselves all the basics, like did we put everything in the right way round etc.
So we are stumped, I am struggling to get to work and all that, and would really like to hear from anyone who has had this problem and knows wht need doing...
Cheers in anticipation.
SP.