I have just over £1000 having my brakes and clutch sorted on My 1973 Triumph Stag at a Triumph specialist. It only went in for a service :(
The clutch had a new master and slave cylinder but it still has a major problem which I would be most grateful if someone could help me diagnose. The problem only seems to manifest itself when the car is fully warmed up, hence, I guess, why the garage thought it was fixed.
When the car is hot nothing seems to happen when I lift the clutch pedal to move away in 1st or reverse, then very suddenly the drive is taken up and we either move off really quickly, or stall.
It really feels like a sticking pedal as I can "Feel" some kind of resistance through the foot, and the pedal travel is not at all smooth, but really jerky and difficult to control. The funny thing is though, if I turn the engine off and then operate the pedal, it is pretty smooth, so I don't see how it can be a clutch pedal problem. If I turn the engine on but leave the car out of gear, the bad feeling in the pedal appears. As I have just had new master and slave cylinders, it can't be those (the problem was there before), and I don't understand how I could "feel" a difference in the clutch pedal if it was something further down the system, i.e the clutch itself or the gearbox.
Please can someone help me with something I can do to diagnose the fault. What could cause a jerky/sticky feeling through the clutch pedal that only comes when the car is hot, and only when the engine is running ? Right now I just feel like selling the car, and I simply can't afford to send it back in the garage having just spent so much, unless I can be sure of roughly how much more it will cost.