No rubber hose, stainless steel line from slave to master. This is a Bugeye
with Datsun 5-speed. The slave is on the left instead of the right.
Larry
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From <JMCarter49 at aol.com>
To: ""Larry Miller"" <millerls@ado13.com>; ""Spridgets""
<spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 19, 2002 11:56 AM
Subject: Re: Clutch Problems
> When was the last time the rubber flex hose was replaced? They tend to
rot from the inside out. A quick depression of the pedal pushes lots of
little rubber pieces into the slave cylinder and they tend to block the
normal bleed down of the clutch (act like little rubber stoppers) slowing
the release of the clutch. Disassemble and clean the slave cylinder,
replace the hose, and it should cure your problem.
>
>
> Well things have been going too good it seems.
>
> We put a couple of hundred miles on the Bugeye this weekend
> running around
> to the various car things that go on here the weekend of the
> historic races.
>
> Friday night we did the cruise that always takes place the
> weekend of the
> historic's. About 25 miles around Pacific Grove, Carmel, Pebble
> Beach,
> Monterey, Etc. Along toward the end of the cruise the clutch
> started acting
> strange. It now works fine as long as you are not in a rush.
> When you shift
> with any urgency at all, the clutch wants to stay depressed. If
> you shift at
> a normal speed and let off the gas as you shift the pedal
> returns just fine.
> If you try any manner of speed shifting the pedal kind of hangs
> up or at
> least is very slow in engaging. No slippage or anything once it
> is engaged.
>
> Pressure plate, disk and release bearing are all Datsun 210
> parts. The slave
> is a 1275 slave cylinder mounted with Paul A's bracket that
> places the bleed
> screw in the proper orientation and uses an adjustable push
> rod. The system
> has about 3000 miles on it.
>
> Any ideas? I've never experienced this symptom before.
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