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Over the last few days, with the help of Travis (Vulcan Gray - thanks man!) I swapped out my clutch to really replace a defective throw out bearing. Everything went seemingly smoothly but now that I have her all back together I'm having a few issues. They are:
- Very difficult going into reverse - I basically have to force it past a little "clunk!" as it pops into reverse.
- Stiff going into all other gears but not as bad as reverse.
- The clutch pedal is now like a hair trigger, barely move my foot and it engages. It was tight before but now it's just insane.
- Very difficult to down shift while moving, heel-toe has to be near perfect for it to slot into gear.
- When I try things with the rear up in the air all seems well (I did a quick test before dropping it and driving it)
I've been getting some assistance from Phil at BOE (thanks Phil!!!) and he is/was thinking I need to bleed the clutch slave as I might have gotten air in there. I've done that 3 times now and while it did get better after the first bleed the second 2 didn't really change it. If I just need to bleed it like crazy I'm happy to do that - I once got air in the brakes of my Audi RS4 and had to bleed like 4 bottles of fluid through it (same bottle 4 times).
Thoughts? Should I just keep bleeding it or did I get something wrong?
Thanks!
-Ross
UPDATE After bleeding the clutch 4 times finally a huge amount of air came out. After that I bleed it some more just to be safe and now all is well with the world once again. Amazing the negative impact air can have!!
Over the last few days, with the help of Travis (Vulcan Gray - thanks man!) I swapped out my clutch to really replace a defective throw out bearing. Everything went seemingly smoothly but now that I have her all back together I'm having a few issues. They are:
- Very difficult going into reverse - I basically have to force it past a little "clunk!" as it pops into reverse.
- Stiff going into all other gears but not as bad as reverse.
- The clutch pedal is now like a hair trigger, barely move my foot and it engages. It was tight before but now it's just insane.
- Very difficult to down shift while moving, heel-toe has to be near perfect for it to slot into gear.
- When I try things with the rear up in the air all seems well (I did a quick test before dropping it and driving it)
I've been getting some assistance from Phil at BOE (thanks Phil!!!) and he is/was thinking I need to bleed the clutch slave as I might have gotten air in there. I've done that 3 times now and while it did get better after the first bleed the second 2 didn't really change it. If I just need to bleed it like crazy I'm happy to do that - I once got air in the brakes of my Audi RS4 and had to bleed like 4 bottles of fluid through it (same bottle 4 times).
Thoughts? Should I just keep bleeding it or did I get something wrong?
Thanks!
-Ross
UPDATE After bleeding the clutch 4 times finally a huge amount of air came out. After that I bleed it some more just to be safe and now all is well with the world once again. Amazing the negative impact air can have!!