Stanleysteamer · Jan 9, 2021

lynall said:
To change clutch on the turbo version the engine had to come out, the drive shaft roll pins mentally scarrred me for life, to change pas rack the engine had to come out, various electrical faults.
It always did 40mog no matter how you drove it.
I sold it to my BIL he fell asleep and parked it in a ditch!

Received and understood.
The PAS on ours developed a tiny weep a bit before I sold it. Glad I didn't have to do the work you had to!
Wifey and I have always been very light on clutches, never had to change one on any car except if down to previous owner.
As I said no other real problems, just serviced it regularly.
Had many other frog cars, quite like them. Present Citroen C3 Pluriel has prolly been more trouble than all the others put together but still nowhere near as bad as my TD5!

lynall · Jan 9, 2021

Stanleysteamer said:
Received and understood.
The PAS on ours developed a tiny weep a bit before I sold it. Glad I didn't have to do the work you had to!
Wifey and I have always been very light on clutches, never had to change one on any car except if down to previous owner.
As I said no other real problems, just serviced it regularly.
Had many other frog cars, quite like them. Present Citroen C3 Pluriel has prolly been more trouble than all the others put together but still nowhere near as bad as my TD5!

The renault clutch was not worn at all, the pedal was amazingly hard to push, was told new clutch would sort it, was sceptical especially as I had to take the engine out, but afterwards I thought it was buggered as the pedal was so light it was unreal!

v8250 · Jan 9, 2021

Hearing your exploits of changing Renault clutches has brought back a long forgotten memory of helping my father change the clutch on a Simca 1300 [why he ever bought the bloody thing, he was always a Jaguar man]. There were two options 1. engine out, or 2. remove front o/s suspension and steering. Father chose the suspension route thinking it would be easier...oh no, it took us four evenings of hard graft to change the clutch. The car was only 4-5 years old and with low mileage but everything had rusted and seized. It was as if it had been assembled with salt water...

Some while later he sold the Simca and bought a...Maxi 1750HL !

My Old Landy · Jan 9, 2021

v8250 said:
Some while later he sold the Simca and bought a...Maxi 1750HL !

My dad had a Maxi, brilliant car! He towed a caravan and all 6 of us inside to Scotland and back one summer

Fond memories!

v8250 · Jan 9, 2021

My Old Landy said:
My dad had a Maxi, brilliant car! He towed a caravan and all 6 of us inside to Scotland and back one summer
Fond memories!

Your father must be a man of remarkable driving skills. The words "towing..." and "Austin Maxi..." are rarely used in the same sentence. Unless the words "beak down truck..." are added

My Old Landy · Jan 9, 2021

v8250 said:
Your father must be a man of remarkable driving skills. The words "towing..." and "Austin Maxi..." are rarely used in the same sentence. Unless the words "beak down truck..." are added

My memory is a bit hazy over the actual details but we did break down once

the front drive shaft broke! Dad phoned the dealer where he bought it and they said they would send someone with a new one. If it was broken it would be free of charge as they didn't believe it could shear. The chap came and fitted the new shaft and left. We then hitched back up and went on our way, Dad never did let on we were a tad overloaded

lynall · Jan 9, 2021

v8250 said:
Hearing your exploits of changing Renault clutches has brought back a long forgotten memory of helping my father change the clutch on a Simca 1300 [why he ever bought the bloody thing, he was always a Jaguar man]. There were two options 1. engine out, or 2. remove front o/s suspension and steering. Father chose the suspension route thinking it would be easier...oh no, it took us four evenings of hard graft to change the clutch. The car was only 4-5 years old and with low mileage but everything had rusted and seized. It was as if it had been assembled with salt water...

Some while later he sold the Simca and bought a...Maxi 1750HL !

When I was a kid me and my mate sneaked his dads Maxi for a drive on the roads, underage/no nothing!

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