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Need to replace the Clutch in my Disco Whats involved ?
clover:
Just doing mine at the moment.
Its needed doing for a while as the thrust bearing has been on its last legs since last November! Mine made a funny noise as you depressed the clutch and you get a horrid vibration through the pedal.
Mine was beginning to slip under load up hills as well.
Right the order of bat is this.
Remove centre console and unscrew the plates holding the rubber gaiter to the gearbox. undo and remove the top half of the gear lever.
Get you vehicle up as high as you can safely.
Remove prop shafts (both of them) from the Xfer box.
Remove exhaust down pipe and hook the rear exhaust section off its rubbers so it can be moved to one side.
Undo the two bolts holding the gearbox mount to the gearbox chassis cross brace.
Undo bolts holding the cross brace MAKING SURE you jack up the gearbox so its supported before removing the bolts!
Remove the cross brace from between the chassis rails (a big long piece of scaffold pole between the brace and the gearbox is the easiest way (brute force required!).
Undo all the nuts and bolts on the bell housing.
Remove Hand brake cable, speedometer cable and reversing switch.
Gently lower the gearbox at the back until the levers are free from the bodywork and slide gearbox off and backwards until you have enough access to get at the clutch and to change the fork and thrust bearing.
Should take you about 2 hours (even quicker if you have the proper tool to make removing the prop shaft nuts quicker job!).
Then do the same in reverse order.
HTH
John
clover:
--- Quote from: discopinky on April 10, 2008, 17:14:38 ---Just doing mine at the moment.
Its needed doing for a while as the thrust bearing has been on its last legs since last November! Mine made a funny noise as you depressed the clutch and you get a horrid vibration through the pedal.
Mine was beginning to slip under load up hills as well.
Right the order of bat ona 200TDI is this.
Remove centre console and unscrew the plates holding the rubber gaiter to the gearbox. undo and remove the top half of the gear lever.
Get you vehicle up as high as you can safely.
Remove prop shafts (both of them) from the Xfer box.
Remove exhaust down pipe and hook the rear exhaust section off its rubbers so it can be moved to one side.
Undo the two bolts holding the gearbox mount to the gearbox chassis cross brace.
Undo bolts holding the cross brace MAKING SURE you jack up the gearbox so its supported before removing the bolts!
Remove the cross brace from between the chassis rails (a big long piece of scaffold pole between the brace and the gearbox is the easiest way (brute force required!).
Undo all the nuts and bolts on the bell housing.
Remove Hand brake cable, speedometer cable and reversing switch.
Gently lower the gearbox at the back until the levers are free from the bodywork and slide gearbox off and backwards until you have enough access to get at the clutch and to change the fork and thrust bearing.
Should take you about 2 hours (even quicker if you have the proper tool to make removing the prop shaft nuts quicker job!).
Then do the same in reverse order.
HTH
John
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stevepage3:
Thanks John
That was very informative. hopefully it won't be to different on the V8. I have had a look underneath and am a bit concerned by what I think are the pipes to the oil cooler in the front, do you need to remove these or can they just be pushed to one side.
Steve
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