On my way to work this afternoon, I caught this lovely smell of burning clutch, followed shortly by severe clutch spin, and then a clunk followed by loss of all drive. The Beast had died :-(
Nice mr AA man towed me home after diagnosing a possible clutch fault !!! which he coouldn't fix at the side of the road. Are you sure you don't want towing to a garage sir, do you know what is involved in a clutch change in one of these??? Yes I'm sure.
Got it home, managed to get the afternoon (2pm to 10pm shift) off work, being the shift manager made it a lot easier ;-) took off the flywheel cover and pulled out handfuls of friction plate :-( Decided to remove all wings etc to facilitate engine removal once crane arrives.
Wallet is now £111.98 lighter having ordered a new friction plate, pressure plate, release bearing and slave cylinder. Basically the conclusion is that the friction plate is u/s, the clunky bang may have been the pressure plate fingers letting go, and while we are at it we may as well do the rest of the clutch assembly for good measure, and the parts arrive Wednesday
Engine crane arrived about 10 mins ago, so come the morning.........
All this, and we are running a night run on Saturday night.... Can I get it done and bedded in in time........
Only trouble is I have to work for the rest of the week due to commitments for meetings to start our winter build up (we make fresh soup), and other such projects, so I will be up and outside 7am rain or shine until 12 so I can get ready for work.
-- Simon Isaacs
Peterborough 4x4 Club Chairman and Webmaster
3.5V8 100" Hybrid Suzuki SJ410 (Girlfirend) Series 3 88" Rolling chassis...what to do next Pug 106 (offroaded once!!)