Vince.VS
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Thanks mateThat's a good mod! You certainly know how to weld - it's all very neat.
Thanks mateThat's a good mod! You certainly know how to weld - it's all very neat.
Mmmmm, Errrrr, I guess when it comes to lubing yer shaft yer favourite lube of choice would be fine.
Maybe a wee squirt of Plus Gas or WD40. Some folk swear by giving it a lubing every time you open the bonnet as they seize up after a few years.
Thanks mateI'd lube the release shaft every oil change with a couple of drops of engine oil. This will keep the shaft from sticking.
My parts car (2001 K Series) had a brand new bracket and hydraulics on it when I got it - so hoping, I can take those over.
The solution was to hang the hydraulic unit in the garage for 24 hours, with the reservoir at the top to allow any air to migrate to the top.
It's been a couple of years since I messed about with the K series clutch hydraulics but I remember spending an hour or more trying to figure out how to refit the master to the bulkhead. In the end it just went in like yours did and I was equally baffled as to what the issue had been and how I had resolved it.Well, I've been doing the clutch hydraulics today. I found out yesterday that the slave shoulder had disintegrated, after getting the bracket off today, I found that the bottom lug that holds the slave in place had broken off. So the system was pretty shagged.
The concept of the self contained 1 piece hydraulics is great - it is though a bit of a PITA. Especially, when reusing 2nd hand stuff
I got the "new" hydraulics off the K Series parts car pretty easily. Getting the master rod off the clutch peddle on the L Series was a real pain. The heating duct must be a few mm closer to the holding pin, because it did not want to come off - in the end "sufficient force" was required which broke the retraining clip - thankfully the K one came off OK. Routing the pipework is a "joy" - not. It may be flexible, but only so much and not wanting to kink or break off the cylinders - is another pain. Then you have it all almost in place and realise the bending in the pipe to take in down under the steering arm/rack is upside down and instead heading for the bonnet! The L Series seams to have a lot more pipes and cables in the way and the hose from the intercooler to turbo obscures the slave/release arm area. What clever sod routed the reverse switch wiring through the slave bracket holes? Nice of them to put connectors there to split the wires, but after 20 years, 1 of them didn't want to budge - more "sufficient force" required.
Anyway, all in place, bracket bolted in place, wiring routed through it, slave clipped in securely - then to push the slave rod back in enough to slot into the release arm - lots of "sufficient force" on finger tips (because there's 2 pipes in the way) is right painful - but in it went. Only the master to secure in place and clip onto peddle. However, would the master clip onto the bulkhead? No. What was expected to be easy became a nightmare and I really do not know why. I tried loads and loads of times without success - so stopped for dinner. After dinner I gave my mate a call who's a big unit and capable of more "sufficient force". He came round and between the 2 of us we still couldn't get it installed. Tried the old one - went in first time. Back to the new one, no way. One last go, and it went in easy as - WTF - frigging cars, friggin Land Rovers.
Just needed to clip the rod onto the peddle, it put up a strong fight, but I was in no mood to pussy foot around and it went on pretty quickly.
Then to test drive. I wasn't actually holding out much hope - the hydraulics had been hanging around for 5 years disconnected from the release arm, so rod fully extended, the rod almost fell out completely a few times routing it, it took some effort to get in back in enough hook it up to the release arm on install, I lost count how many times the master had been upside down and pushed side to side with "sufficient force".
However - it worked a treatAll fixed
(hopefully)
Broken bracket...
View attachment 227607
Plonker.Went to bed last night and I'm lying there and suddenly realise I didn't tighten the 3 bracket bolts! I had just done them up finger tight.
So today, the slave came off again so I could tighten the bolts up.
Twit.
It's been a couple of years since I messed about with the K series clutch hydraulics but I remember spending an hour or more trying to figure out how to refit the master to the bulkhead. In the end it just went in like yours did and I was equally baffled as to what the issue had been and how I had resolved it.
Plonker.![]()
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