Brian L.
Joined: 10 Jul 2006 Posts: 126 Location: Buckley Washington, USA
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Posted: Thu Sep 30, 2021 1:59 pm Post subject: Don't overlook the simple stuff! |
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When I bought my car it had a stiff clutch pedal. The last 1/3 it would get real stiff,. It even had broken a spot weld on the pedal assy. bracket. I got a goood deal on the car and just figured it couldn't be that hard to fix.
I picked up a new Sachs clutch, pressure plate and throwout bearing. Then the next day after work I just dug in. I remember pulling off the clutch cable and thinking "that looks good"., I grabbed one end of the cable and holding the housing in my other hand I slid the cable in the housing. Full movement and no resistance. Well, nothing wrong with that, I thought to myself.
I dropped the exhaust, tranny, torque tube and then the bell housing and was finally able to look at this troublesome clutch. Uh oh, the clutch, pressure plate, flywheel and throw out bearing looked fine, no better then fine, it all looked brand new! I didn't like that! I thought for sure I would find a obvious problem and the new parts I bought would fix the problem but instead I had the feeling the previous owner had already been down this road. I didn't know what to do other than put all my new parts on and hope that somehow fixes the problem.
Well I get the car all back together and guess what, no change what so ever. So I took the car over to my brothers house and he welded that pedal bracket but it didn't really make it any better.
So I went back to try and cover all the bases. I took the clutch cable and squirted some motorcycle chain lube on the cable until it dripped out the other end of the housing and reinstalled it. I stepped on the clutch pedal and boom, it went right to the floor. On the way back up it had an ever so slight hang up but it was at least drivable until I could get a new cable.
So even though the cable seemed to function just fine while it was in my hand, it would barly work when it had a load on it. If the previous owner had just replaced the clutch cable he probably never would have sold me the car. _________________ 1980 924 N.A. Monaco Blue owned since 1987
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