Words and pictures courtesy of Tim Heden
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| When I first got my S – I took it to Tower View and had it thoroughly serviced and checked over ‘slave is weeping a little’ was one of the many comments – Right – must get it sorted soon I though, just keep it topped up with fluid – well, like a fool – I didn’t, and it finally let me down at the most inopportune moment – So I would firmly recommend getting any clutch issues sorted sooner rather than later! | |
| I hope this is a useful guide – if only as an illustration of what things look like – when doing this I couldn’t really see much and the digital camera was extremely useful to see what’s going on | |
| The Clutch slave cylinder is located on the drivers side of the transmission – and is visible (just) to the rear of the engine bay. I think there should be a plastic cover to the slave assembly – this was missing from mine, which will have accelerated the wear on the seal somewhat! | |
| Removal: | |
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This is the easy bit – there are two 13mm bolts holding the slave to the mounting bracket these come off (the top one is a pig to get to) and the 10mm nut holding in the copper piping to the rear needs to be removed – have a jar to collect the clutch fluid if you haven’t already bled the clutch. To the front, there is a 17mm bolt which requires removal also – the bracket is levered in to the clutch bell housing at the rear |
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This should leave the mounting bracket and slave relatively free, now you just need to pop the assembly over the actuation lever to free it from the housing (easier said than done…) |
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Bracket assembly & Slave ready to come off - the reason for removal of the bracket as well is explained below Tip: slacken off the two bolts that mount the cylinder to the bracket – this will buy you a vital extra few mm allowing you to lever the whole assembly back into place |
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Once fully removed, this is what you should have, – unfortunately the new slave is marginally bigger than the old one and the bracket requires a little grinding in order for the new one to fit – I also found that the spring in the new cylinder was significantly more powerful than the 14 year old part that it is replacing – as such getting the rod in was very difficult! |
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This is the fitted cylinder in place – Note bleed nipple to the top |
| Tricky bits :- | |
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