Posted By : Chris Taylor, 05-Jun-2007,
06:07pm
If you are lucky, yes it can, but you do risk getting a whole cylinder of fluid over your bulkhead. A helper armed with a screwdriver would help
enormously, but you will need to get a little intimate with said helper, so choose with care!!
You need to remove the split pin and clevis pin between clutch pedal and pushrod. Then removing the protective boot completely will help. You should
then just be able to see a circlip at the mouth of the master cylinder. When you remove this, the pushrod will come straight out. BUT, there is a
weakish spring behind the piston in the cylinder, and removing this circlip will also allow the piston to come out of the cylinder and drain the
cylinder and reservoir in a few seconds! What you need is your assistant to press against the piston, as close to the cylinder wall as possible (but
don't scratch the wall!), while you remove the circlip, retrieve the pushrod, and then replace the circlip. You COULD do the job yourself, especially
if you have three hands or can easily remove the circlip with one hand, but a helper is really desirable, despite the lack of space to get at the end
of the cylinder with it bolted in place.
Before doing all this I suggest you remove the clevis pin and boot and have a good look at the bits to see exactly where the wear is. It may be in the
pushrod fork, the pin itself, or the end of the clutch pedal. You only need to remove the pushrod if the hole has worn oval.
I would be surprised if wear here on its own would account for enough clutch drag to make gear engagement difficult. You may be able to slide the slave
cylinder forward in its clamp towards the bellhousing slightly, but it is worth checking that the problem is not a displaced thrust washer on the
crankshaft (does the crank drivebelt pulley move forwards when the clutch is depressed?) or a loss of (or serious wear in) the release bearing pivot
pin/bushes in the bellhousing.
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Posted By : Alan Fulbrook, 05-Jun-2007,
10:14pm
The hole is worn by about 4mm on each side and the pin is not that good either.
Last time the car was running I had pushed the slave cylinder forward before tightening it up. ( I forgot this time)
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Posted By : Alan Fulbrook, 11-Jun-2007,
12:40pm
Just an to update, changed the pushrod with no problems at all.
So it can easily be done without stripping the master cylinder down.