The joy of running a 26 year old car...

shaunwil · September 25, 2010, 09:49:12 PM

Are you sure the seals haven\'t failed and are just passing the fluid past the seals and not working at all.

The only newer car I have is the FD and it doesn\'t even have an engine at the minute.

Shaun

CHC (RIP) · September 25, 2010, 10:56:53 PM

Looks like a mare then mate

If you lived locally I\'d offer assistance.

myatt1972 · September 25, 2010, 11:18:34 PM

Ive got an engine crane at work, its pulled a few 12A\'s in its time.
Im going on my hols sunday till thursday but if you need it sooner I will ring the lads at work and you could collect it (wont fit in the jag though).
It does split into two parts and would fit in an estate or van.
I can give you a lift with things when I get back, I bet we could have it done in a couple of hours :Thumbs-up

Ian65 · September 26, 2010, 08:03:47 AM

Quote from: myatt1972;718198Ive got an engine crane at work, its pulled a few 12A\'s in its time.
Im going on my hols sunday till thursday but if you need it sooner I will ring the lads at work and you could collect it (wont fit in the jag though).
It does split into two parts and would fit in an estate or van.
I can give you a lift with things when I get back, I bet we could have it done in a couple of hours :Thumbs-up

cheers Keith, I\'ll give you a bell.

David Nock (RIP) · September 26, 2010, 11:46:32 AM

Quote from: Ian65;718020A dark, rainy, Friday morning rush hour at an island on a busy trunk road and it lets me down... glad the insurance provides free breakdown cover.

Never been so glad to get back into the modern car.

Still looks like the dogs danglies, even in sick mode.

Ian65 · September 26, 2010, 02:08:28 PM

Quote from: shaunwil;718187Are you sure the seals haven\'t failed and are just passing the fluid past the seals and not working at all.
Shaun

When I press the clutch pedal down and hold it there, the slave actuates.... if there was a leak on the seals, I would expect the slave to slowly retract by itself, but it doesn\'t, it stays extended. There are no fluid leaks either, inside the rubber boots or anywhere that I can see.
The pedal hardly has any resistance either, and only rises back up very slowly, as if the cylinder springs, not the pressure plate are lifting it back up.

shaunwil · September 26, 2010, 04:50:28 PM

Ah, sounds like the clutch is knackered internally then

Shaun

Ian65 · September 28, 2010, 09:00:19 PM

Quote from: Ian65;718131my project car SPA is stuck over my pit with no suspension on it so the pit\'s out of action and so that makes the work on the other car more awkward... factor in dark nights, cold weather and the general pressures of life and it becomes a bit of a mare.

Desperate times call for desperate measures.....
I\'ve had to rope the wife in to help....!!

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CHC (RIP) · September 28, 2010, 11:23:46 PM

I wondered where \'her in doors\' shot off to so early this morning - when I asked her for a leg up I didn\'t actually mean this, never mind Ian benefits again then.

captainbizzaro · September 28, 2010, 11:29:46 PM

Fair play lol.

Ian65 · September 29, 2010, 06:44:00 AM

saves me hunting around for the handle to the trolley jack!

David Nock (RIP) · September 29, 2010, 01:03:10 PM

Dolly Parts On.....weak pun there.

Ian65 · October 02, 2010, 07:09:46 PM

Double checked the hydraulics today, bled them and still couldn\'t get a pedal so decided to get the car up in the air and drop the gearbox... a pretty simple job on a 1st gen

This is what I found in the bottom of the bellhousing.....remnants of the clutch plate...

Doesn\'t look good does it???

Dropped the clutch off next and this is what was left of it.... no wonder I couldn\'t get a pedal and completely lost the clutch.... it had totally disintegrated.

In nearly 30 years of working on and restoring my cars, I\'ve never had such a
catastrophic clutch failure on a road car.

It\'s also taken the slave cylinder with it as well. Following the disintegration of the clutch plate, it meant that the piston and seal in the slave was allowed to travel further down the bore than usual and the seal then passed the rusty bit at the end of the bore, scoring the seal and causing it to leak. Great.

So far I\'m up to a new clutch and slave but I might as well go for it and fit the Elford stuff so I\'ll get the bits together and pull the engine next.

syebba · October 02, 2010, 07:19:32 PM

ooh er!
You made a right fine mess there!
Thought u were gonna fix in spring 2011,knew u could\'nt wait!
Best of luck with fix.
ta stu..

Ian65 · October 02, 2010, 07:24:48 PM

Quote from: syebba;719234ooh er!
You made a right fine mess there!
Thought u were gonna fix in spring 2011,knew u could\'nt wait!
Best of luck with fix.
ta stu..

I was gonna wait.....honest!
Problem was, I needed to get all the new parts together but I wouldn\'t know what I needed until I stripped it.
Now I\'ve started it I might as well do the turbo conversion.
It\'ll probably be the spring by the time it\'s up and running though!