Freelander 1 1.8 - making a mess of the clutch master & slave cylinder swap

Hi All,

I have replaced the clutch master cylinder & slave cylinder assembly on my car at lunchtime with a genuine replacement (found on eBay for a good price). However, I couldn't have made the relatively straightforward task more difficult if I tried...

1. Got the pipe routing wrong enough for me to have to pull it all out and start again. I believe it's now sorted.....always, but always photograph pipe runs before changing components...FFS! I still can't get a horizontal pipe I disturbed running horizontally along the bulkhead to stay in two of the clips, but I'll address that another day when my back stops angrily shouting at me.

2. Broke the clip that secures the master cylinder pushrod to the ball on the clutch pedal, so I'm re-using the old one which is very much on it's last legs). Don't suppose some kind soul has a decent spare clip I can buy off them (Land Rover don't sell them separately)?

3. Unwittingly disconnected a vacuum pipe from the inlet manifold while poking around...so it ran really rough when I started it up. Replaced that, but things are still not 100% (suspect I still have a bit of an air leak, but will have to look properly another day).

4. Traction control and yellow hill descent control lights are now on. Suspect I've disturbed something behind the pedals...but what could that be?

I shall spend the afternoon sulking!

Cheers,
Malcolm

Sounds like you had fun so let me add to it.
Did you lubricate the arm the slave cylinder pushes and did you check the slave bracket is OK?
The arm seizes in the bell housing so needs a drop of oil periodically and the sticky arm causes the bracket to fail.

After work, I poked my head under the bonnet and checked every pipe and hose was securely attached (a couple on the airbox were refitted less hurriedly). Started it up and it ran totally normally, so I must have fixed a slight air leak somewhere.

Even better - none of the dashboard lights seen after lunchtime came back on (I have an SRS light on, but that's been on a few months now and is unrelated).

Clearly I annoyed it at lunchtime with all my poking and prodding and it had calmed down by evening.

Alibro said:

Sounds like you had fun so let me add to it.
Did you lubricate the arm the slave cylinder pushes and did you check the slave bracket is OK?
The arm seizes in the bell housing so needs a drop of oil periodically and the sticky arm causes the bracket to fail.

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Urgh...looks like I'll be whipping the airbox off again at lunchtime tomorrow..! Thanks for the tip though Alibro..!

So, given it's good mood this evening. I treated it to a wash to get 4-5 months' of dirt, dust, road salt, tree sap and birdsh!t off....hope it behaves now.

Would still love to locate one of those clutch pedal ball-joint to master cylinder pushrod plastic clip things though...