For those of you who were on the Victoria drive you know that my clutch feel was stange and needed a lot of efford to push the pedal. Lots of people had ideas on what the cause was.

Today Dave and I took on the task of fixing the issue.

1 - change the clutch fluid. - this made a very slight improvement in the feel. This was not enough of an improvement. Test drive confirmed that this was not the result we were looking for. So we moved to step 2.

2 - lube the clutch slave input to the clutch fork. Luckily when putting it back together we had to remove due to misalighment. This forced us to examine the output shaft of the slave. We idetified a bur on the knuckle. We removed the bur, lubed it up and put it all back together.

Test drive was a sucess!

Thanks to Dave for several hours of help. Now Stella is ready for next weekend's drive.

 

glad to hear you solved the issue, Garret.

 

I am glad Dave had the time to help me out.

 

Good news on the fix!

My car also had uneven wear on the ball end of the slave shaft that resulted in an anoying squeek every time I used the clutch... a few minutes with the dremel and a little grease fixed it.

 

i'm glad that you and Dave fixed your clutch problem.

 

G-man...

good work on the clutch. if you and chris both experienced similar maladies from the clutch arm, that's one correction that needs to go into the book as a 'first suspect'...

thanks again all three of you