Kendall,
In a similar situation I found my slave cylinder to be retaining some air
bubbles. Pumping might make it work temporarily but it would return to poor
operation shortly afterwards. I wired the plunger in place, removed the slave
cylinder from the gearbox and carefully lowered it until it was pointing
straight down and the plastic hose was straight up and down. Wouldnt you know
that a bunch of air bubbles ran up the line and presto, no more problem with
the clutch, and none since. I am not sure why it worked that way, but it did.
Aaron
Aaron Cropley
71 TR6 (Throttle Body Injection!)
http://www.triumphowners.com/108
Topsham, Maine
-----Original Message-----
From: mailkendall@sbcglobal.net
To: 6pack@autox.team.net
Sent: Tue, 1 Aug 2006 4:27 AM
Subject: Yet another clutch thread
Hey List,
Well here we go again with another clutch problem. I tried bleed the clutch
this evening and it worked great for maybe 10 or so engage/disengage
operations, And then back to only partial disengaging of the clutch. Let me
see if I can set up the facts concisely so you can take a guess at the cause.
- Car drove for years but with very short clutch action, not sticky, just very
near the floor.
- Broken fork pin problem finally degraded to the point where the car was
undrivable a few months back.
- Replaced cross shaft and fork but not the throw-out bearing, put everything
back together clutched disengaged fully but with many of the 'sticky' clutch
symptoms.
- After only a few days/weeks of driving with the somewhat sticky clutch it
began to only partially disengage again.
- Thinking it was a problem with me not greasing the front cover of the gearbox
where the throw-out bearing sleeve rides I pulled the gear box and greased up
the sleeve.
- Now I can only get the clutch to work for a few strokes before it goes back
to partially disengaging. Sometimes it works to "pump it up" by working the
pedal repeatedly until the clutch is fully disengaged.
- I don't think the fork is broken again since I added a secondary pin last
time, but I didn't really try hard to move the fork on the shaft while it was
out last time. Maybe it is broken again... but I doubt it.
- Will probably pull the gear box again to make SURE that the fork is OK.
- ??? Not sure what else to try after that?
- Maybe there's a problem with the hydraulics somewhere?
Getting annoyed...
Kendall
San Clemente, CA
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