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Hi all, I've gleaned so much good info from this site but now have a question. Seems that others have had similar issues but I wanted to be sure that we hadn't done anything wrong here as well as hopefully find a solution.
Car: 1987 900 vert with about 100k miles on it (Canada, so 150kms). Body excellent shape; among other things needing work, the clutch had failed.
Replaced slave, master, bearing and bled. Worked great for about 5 miles then died shifting from 1st to 2nd gear - back to no little or no resistance on clutch. Slave was leaking.
Replaced slave again (gah!) and bled. Drove for another 5 miles or so to test and seemed fine. Reversing into garage - died.
Slaves were both by MTC (just most readily available). Seems that others have had as many as 3 failures on non-OEM slaves and resorted to LuK or other comparable top-quality parts.
Advice? Thoughts? Angry screams about idiocy? SEND IT.
Here's what my buddy who worked on it (prof car restorer with experience with many exotic brands) wrote for more detail:
Starting out the slave was shot when you got the car noticed the leak coming from under the slave were it's supposed to compress the fingers. Replaced the slave cylinder by compressing the clutch fingers and removing the dust cap and plastic oil x screw then using a flywheel bolt threading it into the shaft that goes through into the flywheel and pulling out the shaft just enough so everything can clear while removing. During install put the new clutch and pressure plate together and compressed the clutch fingers and slave can all be installed together one in bolt it up. Now issue number one. Bled the slave by having a one man bleeder kit cracking the bleed nipple just enough to let air and fluid out attaching the hose over the bleed valve. Pumped the clutch held to floor with a 2x2 then open the bleeder tighten then start over again. Slave was working as it should, went to back up peddle went dead noticed leaking coming from behind the slave again. Like the first time. Only had about 5 miles on each before they both failed, any comments or advice would be great the slaves were made by MTC.
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