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Well, maybe. It's a theory.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Wed, 23 Mar 2011 13:31:35
In Reply to: Dried, stuck slave o-ring got jammed, David Ingram, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:53:36
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Not much room for O-ring to go anywhere, and pressure plate would force things released again I'd think if it did happen. Three years of a pressure plate's fingers pushing back on the throwout bearing would I think overpower a tiny strip of rubber. A few seconds of that pressure, more like. And, if the O-ring came out of its groove you'd think fluid would leak past it somehow and thus not work to have released clutch in the first place.
Peter, you HAVE to open this thing up and report back what you find.
Maybe pressure plate was never tightened properly, and bolts backed out releasing clutch disk to spin freely.
Or maybe one bolt came out, or something else got down inside there, and got into the pressure plate works, jamming it released.
As to OEM vs aftermarket slave I don't know, but it would have to be pretty atrocious to fail even just hydraulically with little use or with age alone. I personally am a fan of cleaning these things up and getting new o-rings for them. It's a pretty failsafe design.
I can't believe it drove in their fine, sat three years, and somehow developed the failure you're describing while quietly parked.
Or then again, maybe don't open it up quite yet. Do you know the tranny to be good?
Try jacking the whole front end up and spinning one wheel. Does the other one spin the opposite direction?
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Posts in this Thread:
- Weird transmission problem, peter charak, Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:06:05
- Re: Weird problem, derf, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 19:02:57
- Dried, stuck slave o-ring got jammed, David Ingram, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 12:53:36
- Depose your neighbor under oath., RayF, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 07:43:09
- Re: probably a mistake made during slave install?, DanaH, Wed, 23 Mar 2011 06:44:14
- Re: Weird transmission problem, Gene N , Wed, 23 Mar 2011 05:15:15
- Weird symbols, too, peter charak, Tue, 22 Mar 2011 21:12:37
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