Morning all,
I have a problem with my 110, 3.9 V8i (ex-Range Rover), LT85 gearbox. When driving slowly, i.e. in Cambridge traffic, after a while the clutch starts to slip, this gets progressively worse the longer spent queuing. I've never entirely lost drive, but have had to resort to low-range to allow enough revs that some of them were 'getting through' to the gearbox.
The engine has a stainless exahust system, including manifolds, and I think what's happening is the odd-side manifold is slowly heating the clutch pipe/slave cylinder, expanding the fluid which is slowly forcing the clutch in. I've started to lag the exhaust manifold with the white fibre exhaust lagging and I think it's helping, but it's a sod to get into.
What's niggling me is that maybe the clutch isn't adjusted properly, but I think I'm right in thinking that the system is self-adjusting, so long as the pedal is the right distance from the floor and the master cylinder pushrod has its 1.5mm of freeplay?
Any other ideas or should I just get busy with more lagging?
Cheers,
AndyC.