Clutch Change-How-To.

[mjb]

Sponginess is bad bleeding (it's caused by trapped air compressing), however I was just thinking I forgot to do the recommended 40 pumps thing after the final bleed, and it didn't seem so bad the closer I got to home on the way back from work, so it may just be a lack of pressure, which those 40 pumps are supposed to build up

fingers crossed anyway, I am NOT going through all that again - it can stay as it is until I have the money to pay someone

[swiss]

Nice work our Matt. I'm definitely weighing up the situation. First I'd have to get my estate (with which I'd replace the saloon anyway) so I was still mobile, then I'd have to find some serious bollocks to attempt this job.

Mind you, all my mates reckon I'm well manly already after the Omega situation ^_^

Suggest we start a fund to buy Jasper a light aircraft, allowing him to get to all our houses with ease ^^

[mjb]

Nice work our Matt. I'm definitely weighing up the situation. First I'd have to get my estate (with which I'd replace the saloon anyway) so I was still mobile, then I'd have to find some serious bollocks to attempt this job.

Yeah, there's a few things you need before you consider this job

1) A garage. I really wouldn't try this outdoors unless you live somewhere it'll never rain or be too windy
2) My 406-specific howto (coming soon)
3) The right tools, supplies and equipment (big list, will be in the howto)
4) Alternative transportation
5) Time
6) Balls of steel

It's not actually that difficult a job to do, just very long with many sub-jobs. If you've got the above, the only hard parts are putting the gearbox back on (due to its weight), not mis-placing anything, and getting those goddamn wheelarch screws out, but for a noobie like I was, I wouldn't suggest trying it without my forthcoming howto.

Despite all the pain it's caused me, it is a very liberating, confidence building and educational experience. The sense of achievement at the end of it is out of this world!

Later in the year in exchange for beer and somewhere to crash for the night, I may be persuaded to assist people wishing to do theirs since I now seem to know these infernal things intimately (I can pretty much tell you the location and size of every single bolt forward of the bulkhead now, off the top of my head!!!) , but for now I'm determined not to even lift my own bonnet to put on the battery cover I forgot about, for at least a month I need to recover

[Welly]

I reckon any judderyness will clear up with use. You would have a smoother operation if you'd have change the flywheel but I just think the judder is the grippyness of the new friction material (I hope).

[steve_earwig]

Change the flywheel??!! Surely t aint got a Dodgily Manufactured Flywheel

[Welly]

Change the flywheel??!! Surely t aint got a Dodgily Manufactured Flywheel

I just fort the flywheel may have deposits of stickyness/contamination hindering it's smooth rotational, err, rotation?

Maybe a few 'Grand Prix' starts are in order?

[Captain Jack]

...fort....

...hindering it's smooth rotational, err, rotation?

Operation?

[steve_earwig]

...fort....

= fank, finkded, funked.

[Captain Jack]

I am non-the-wiser

[mjb]

Took the car for a few hundred mile drive to Swindon and back yesterday. The juddering disappeared over the course of the day, although i did notice the car feeling a lot more perky on the way home. I'm starting to suspect I may have a cylinder not firing. Again.

[steve_earwig]

Was that perky or porky?

[Springnuts]

Hi all,

Interested to read this long and informative post. I took the 'easy' way and got the local garage to change the clutch - but I have had the juddering issue on the new one. It is improving slowly - 3000 miles down the line - so I hope it is just an extended form of bedding in! Regards, Springnuts.