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series 2a clutch hydraulics

Yesterday:

park up to price a job (joiner)

return to landie and clutch feels soft on the pedal

ho hum, set off and over 1 mile clutch becomes totally ineffective. crash box it home with hardly a crunch (been here before you see) using lanes and avoiding give ways as much as possible. lucky on junctions. check reservoir. empty just about.

refer to manual this morning. Rover green bible says remove floor/tunnel to access slave cylinder. blast. all screws and bolts now effectively the same metal as surrounding environment. forsee unpleasant afternoon with drill and grinder. spot useful looking 2" grommet on tunnel. remove said grommet to reveal bleed nipple. hooray. bleed clutch. drive off. replace grommet and carpet.

note: must try and find source of original fluid loss.

WHY NO MENTION OF SAID GROMMET IN THE MANUAL?

remove tunnel my ar$e !

Eddy 1967 2a 88" petrol

Reply to
Eddy Bayton
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Eddy Bayton posted ...

Heheheh, you want it easy ..

;)

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Paul - xxx

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said grommet is no longer available as a replacement part, or so i found recently, also helps if you cut a spanner down to about 1 1/2 inches long. the bleed nipple undid!!!! they normally break off.

Reply to
Warwick Barnes

Barely affording the pen hire after paying dealer prices, Warwick Barnes scrawled....

Why no buy PROPER FACTORY WORKSHOP MANUAL manual? Why buy Haynes? And buy yourself a parts manual too. They're v. useful for seeing how things come to bits.... Unless of course your manual is different from mine (possible I suppose). You can't expect the company who made "Reversal is the removal of refitting" famous to do a proper job can you? These are the people who took gearbox dismantling out of MkII Golf 'manuals' because most people don't dismantle gearboxes.....

Visit your local automotive supplier (not Halfords, the people who supply them) and buy a big box for pennies. For bearings, visit your local bearing supplier with the bearing you removed, and buy several for the price of one 'replacement part'. Grease your nipples with copperease. bleed slightly to remove any chance of contamination, and your future nipple twiddling will be smooooooth! Oh, and Balco bearings? More like piece of shit... Next time you buy a bearing, read what it says on it (not on the box). Words like GKN or Timken (or even just numbers) can be quoted at bearing companies over the phone and bypass the middlemen, resellers and suchlike

Reply to
weallhatebillgates

hmmm,

probably worn seals in either slave or master cyl,

check master and if theres black stuff anywhere in it after youve put good oil in, the the rubber seals are knackerd, same could be on slave, therefore allowing oil to seep into bellhousing, unbeknown to you.

andy

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Reply to
Andy

if i remember rightly there are several similar grommets under the carpet on a (genuine) Mini front floorpan...perhaps a source?

the bleed nipple undid beautifully with a 7/16" slim ring spanner. it even had a rubber dust cap on it!

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Eddy Bayton

Stealiing a march on himself, weallhatebillgates didn't think, therefore he wasn't but managed to toss out the following first...

Mole grips (sorry - brake pipe clamp) on flexi hose. If pedal still sinks, problem is upstream. If pedal is solid, problem is downstream. Usually seals in slave cylinder (there are diff. bore sizes, so if it's seals, measure _piston/cylinder_ to check size.

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weallhatebillgates

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