90 Clutch Issue

I do hope someone can help?
When I started driving my 99 Td5 this morning I noticed a small amount of clutch oil had seeped down the clutch pedal & onto the floor.
During the course of the day it got worse & turned from a few drips into a small puddle! The clutch, over a short time became almost unusable so I brought it home.
I checked the clutch fluid & it was empty, filled it up & pumped the clutch & it seems to of almost gone back to how it should be. I dont want to drive it though & I'm using the Mrs car for work tomorrow. Does anyone know what the prob could be?
Many thanks Ian

Ian_Td5 said:

I do hope someone can help?
When I started driving my 99 Td5 this morning I noticed a small amount of clutch oil had seeped down the clutch pedal & onto the floor.
During the course of the day it got worse & turned from a few drips into a small puddle! The clutch, over a short time became almost unusable so I brought it home.
I checked the clutch fluid & it was empty, filled it up & pumped the clutch & it seems to of almost gone back to how it should be. I dont want to drive it though & I'm using the Mrs car for work tomorrow. Does anyone know what the prob could be?
Many thanks Ian

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The seals have failed on your clutch master cylinder. Time for a new one.

once yiv fixed that feel happy:
till ya slave fails

How much is this going to cost me?

And is it the same as on a disco td5?

Ian_Td5 said:

How much is this going to cost me?

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And is it the same as on a disco td5?

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I am pretty sure it is the same on a TD5 as it is on other defenders. They are around £22 to buy from places like craddocks, paddocks or famousfour

60 squid or less; depends on the make you choose

thanks.. thats not too bad.
I dont rearly fancy doing the job myself, how many hrs labour do you recon?

Ian_Td5 said:

thanks.. thats not too bad.
I dont rearly fancy doing the job myself, how many hrs labour do you recon?

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an hour to 2 hours. Depends on how quick your clutch can be bled again. Sometimes it only takes a couple of mins other times they can be a right sod.

Great, cheers for that & have a great new year

Its a simple job, its the first ever job I did on my 90. You can replace the seals for about £5 and simply rebuild the old one, the cylinder never really wears out unless there was grit in the fluid and it scored it.

I got a Delphi one in my local motor factors for £27. DON'T GET A BRITPART cylinder or seals.

discomania said:

DON'T GET A BRITPART cylinder or seals.

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I wont buy owt from them again.. Bought a door handle from them & it didnt fit

Thanks again.

I think we should all write to paddocks (they sell mostly BP junk), and tell them what s**t their stuff is.

It's bad enough working out what part number you need sometimes without the investigation before buying into WHO makes it.

I don't know why LRO give them such a big plug and have the Britpart LR etc, that thing will go 1000miles if its lucky then suffer from lots of major faults.

What gets me is these guys doing the LR up are going to be fairly skilful they do make a good job of the LR, they must know the stuff is pants and doesn't fit properly and needs modified and comes out the box with wobbles in the bearings and things. Or do you think all the critical stuff is actually other manufacturers?