If you remove the pin which connects the clutch fork to the slave cylinder,
you should only be able to wiggle the clutch fork within the limits of the
play in the bushing (which could be considerable). There is no way you can
actuate the clutch itself with one hand on the lever (maybe if you got your
leg into it). If the lever seems loose, or if it moves more than, I don9t
know, maybe 1/2 inch in the direction that the slave cylinder would have
pushed it, that would tend to indicate it is no longer functioning as it
should. Beyond the things I mentioned, another possibility is that the
throwout bearing has come apart. Would you know if a roller bearing had been
installed in this car (as opposed to the standard carbon bearing)?
on 8/11/04 2:24 PM, Tim Holt at holtt@nacse.org wrote:
> Ah ok. So should I be able to manually push the clutch release lever
> (what the SS pushes on) a bit? That is if something was fubar inside
> the clutch would I be able to tell by manipulating the clutch release
> lever from under the car? Anything as it were to not have to pull it all!
>
> Max Heim wrote:
>
>> I assume you are using the abbreviation "SS" for "slave cylinder"... I don't
>> think I would spell it that way...<g>.
>>
>> Clutch 101: The clutch consists of a friction disk and a "pressure plate",
>> so-called because it exerts spring pressure to hold the friction disk
>> against the flywheel in order to transfer power from the engine to the
>> transmission. When you press the clutch pedal, you are pressurizing a
>> hydraulic ram (the slave cylinder) which actuates a lever which pulls the
>> friction disk away from the flywheel, against the springs in the pressure
>> plate. If you take your foot off the clutch pedal, the springs in the
>> pressure plate should push the friction disk back into contact with the
>> flywheel, re-enabling propulsion.
>>
>> So I am saying that the problem is internal to the clutch housing, possibly
>> broken springs in the pressure plate, or a broken clutch fork. At any rate,
>> it is something beyond what you are describing with the slave cylinder.
>>
>>
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