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Help or advice on clutch

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Wanderer:
A lesson learnt.

Don't just remove the wading plug and check for leaks on the slave cylinder.

I could have saved some heartache (for now) by removing the slave cylinder and checking it for fluid leakage.

On the good side. The clutch friction plate was down near the rivets and the pressure plate fingers were weak on one side.
So we fitted new clutch, forks and also the pivot ball.
Shame it comes as a complete unit instead of a screw in replacement ball.

I managed to get a local 4x4 "shop" to open up on Sunday morning to supply me with a new slave cylinder but he gave us a V8 one which has a different thread on the clutch pipe between the damper and slave cylinder.

We tried butchering the existing pipe with another fitting but then found the size of pipe didn't fit our pipe flaring tools. I think the new pipe is metric and our flaring tool ends that were there were imperial.

Why do LR do so many mix and matches of imperial and metric?
Rhetorical question!

Thanks to Bev and Paul for their assistance.
I'd never have managed without them.
Paul may have some pics somewhere....

Ed

Paul:

--- Quote from: "Wanderer" ---Paul may have some pics somewhere....

--- End quote ---


I'll post a link when I've uploaded them. :wink:

Paul:
Photo's of the Clutch change on Ed's Discovery:

http://members.mud-club.com/profiles/paul/gallery/Clutch%20Fitting

Andy.:
Heh Ed did'nt realise you had a detachable tow bar fitted from Scorpion?

And that rear diff guard looks too shiny  :?:

hobbit:
Until recently the whole back axle/suspension was clean and shiney, and dare I say .....  Painted!   :wink:


Kev

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