As I've hinted at before, I'm not the most gifted when it comes to wielding a spanner, but I thought I'd pass on this as an example that others might benefit from even if they are mechanical gods.
My clutch has gradually become a little 'moody'; sometimes the gear change would be as smooth as silk, other times notchy and graunchy. I've been through a couple of leaky clutch slave cylinders and had got myself resigned to the fact that at some point in the future I'd be looking at a new clutch and a gearbox rebuild. Well, following some electrical fiddling around behind the dashboard - the result of an oil spill caused by a loose connection to the oil pressure gauge (!) - I had to refit the carpet in the driver's side footwell. During this process I realised just how much the carpet had crept forward and was in fact impeding the clutch pedal from it's full travel. A quick tug on the carpet and a bit of glue to hold things in place and hey presto, the clutch is working great and gear changes are a joy once again.
So the moral of the story? Don't ignore the obvious.
My clutch has gradually become a little 'moody'; sometimes the gear change would be as smooth as silk, other times notchy and graunchy. I've been through a couple of leaky clutch slave cylinders and had got myself resigned to the fact that at some point in the future I'd be looking at a new clutch and a gearbox rebuild. Well, following some electrical fiddling around behind the dashboard - the result of an oil spill caused by a loose connection to the oil pressure gauge (!) - I had to refit the carpet in the driver's side footwell. During this process I realised just how much the carpet had crept forward and was in fact impeding the clutch pedal from it's full travel. A quick tug on the carpet and a bit of glue to hold things in place and hey presto, the clutch is working great and gear changes are a joy once again.
So the moral of the story? Don't ignore the obvious.
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