Had a freeloader in for repair today, clutch pedal had dropped to floor. Turned out fault was a split in the hydraulic pipe, all the fluid had gone. Easy methinks, repair pipe, bleed up, happy customer. Or not, landrover have decided in their 'wisdom' to make the clutch hydraulics a sealed unit, with no bleed nipple. I had to throw away a perfectly good master cylinder, and a perfectly good slave cylinder just for the sake of a tiny split in a plastic pipe. I remember when you could get seal kits for cylinders, then they decided that you weren't allowed to put the seals in your self, you have to buy a complete cylinder. Now you aren't even allowed to put the bloody fluid in yourself, you have to buy the whole system ready assembled and bled! How long until you have to throw the whole car away?
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19 years ago