Something's up with my stock clutch

MJB · 10-06-2014, 10:28 AM

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Originally Posted by wdkwang

Very randomly over the course of the last 1-1.5 years the clutch has been acting up. When I cold start it, there'd be a lot of play with the clutch pedal. Sometimes I can still put it in gear, sometimes I have to pump away at the clutch for 10 minutes for me to muscle it into gear.

Hydraulic clutch systems on cars are a very simple design. If you are having trouble getting into a gear, either the syncro for that particular gear is worn, or you do not have enough pressure in the hydraulic system for the csc to be able to push in on the pressure plate enough to fully disengage from the disk. Like Chuck33079 mentioned, the CSC is probably on its last leg.

wdkwang · 10-06-2014, 10:33 AM

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Originally Posted by MJB

Hydraulic clutch systems on cars are a very simple design. If you are having trouble getting into a gear, either the syncro for that particular gear is worn, or you do not have enough pressure in the hydraulic system for the csc to be able to push in on the pressure plate enough to fully disengage from the disk. Like Chuck33079 mentioned, the CSC is probably on its last leg.

If it's the CSC, then I guess the diagnosis was simple. Just to clear it up, any other time when this doesn't happen or 10 minutes into driving with the problem, everything is back to normal. Clutch engagement is smooth, gear goes right in smooth, like nothing ever happened.

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