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Sorry, long...
BACKGROUND:
So there may be an important caveat to the 3 Fat Nuts method of compressing the pressure plate: Those PP mounting bolts are LONG, and their reach allows one to shim the plate with fatter nuts than may be necessary, seating the spacer tool and spring fingers more deeply than a slave cylinder (at least mine) can reach in a normal stroke...
So my new Sachs clutch kit was in, and pristine, and pretty, late last night when I pushed the pedal to get the spacer out. I confess, I did so more than once looking for that little resistance at the end of the stroke that says you've made contact with the PP. On the third pump there was a <POP> and I found brake fluid dripping out of the PP, so I took it all back apart as quickly as I could and emptied a newish can of brake cleaner onto both sides of the friction disk, but that was easily 10 minutes after blowing the slave seals...
QUESTION:
Is this friction disk toasted now? It looks like the flywheel side didn't get any fluid, but even now that it's dry I can _see_ on the PP side where the brake fluid was, splashed intermittently about a third of the way around. Obviously I'm going to try to drive on it and see how that goes b/c I've already missed too much work with this project, but if the disk is now bad what symptoms should I be watching for?
Also I get to try my first (otherwise good, <20k) slave cylinder rebuild with the seal kit I just happen to have on hand: Any crucial tips to keep me out of trouble there? TIA
POSSIBLE MORAL OF THE SOB STORY:
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If you used the fat nuts or anything similar to get the spacer in, and the slave cylinder _doesn't_ make contact on your FIRST pedal stroke, then use the fat nuts to get it back out too. Or else possibly run out of profanities and miss another day of work.
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posted by 98.90.136...
, Fri, 25 Mar 2011 03:34:09
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