Lucifer the annoying slave cylinder

Hi all,
Happy new year to you all.
The clutch slave cylinder in my 90 has had a slow leak for about 6 months now. I really should have done this sooner but today I finally crawled onto the frosted floor to get it done. The old cylinder was completely knackered actually falling apart leaving bits of rubber behind. On pulling these out I managed to pull out the push rod with the plastic clip - no big deal I though. 5 hours later I've a broken clip and a red raw back from trying to get this clip back on the clutch fork... Has anyone got any suggestions? Im realtivly new to working on cars and DO NOT want to end up pulling the transmission. Do I even need the clip? It doesn't seem like it's going to do a fat lot once the slave has pressure on the push rod?

Many thanks

Ps im a but desperate as I was planning on using the car for towing next weekend

I'm sure there is somebody on here with more knowledge about this than me but I had exactly the same problem a few months ago and I have been driving since then with no clip. No problems... .so far

I have read about people using a piece of pipe and fitting a new clip / rod through the slave cylinder hole.

However when I tried it , it was a right PITA, so gave up and have been running for a year or two with no clip fitted.

Cheers

neilly said:

I have read about people using a piece of pipe and fitting a new clip / rod through the slave cylinder hole.

However when I tried it , it was a right PITA, so gave up and have been running for a year or two with no clip fitted.

Cheers

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I am thinking of not bothering. My mates a quad mechanic and couldn't see how to do it.
My only concern is it will come of and destroy the clutch. Do you know what the procedure was for the pipe thing? I have tried holding the fork from going back with a screwdriver but access becomes to tight
Thanks

Iirc , it was someone saying they had used a 200mm length of 20mm diameter plastic plumbing pipe, put something sticky to hold the rod and clip in the end and then used the pipe down the salve hole to insert it into the arm. I tried it a few times with new clips and gave up.

As said, mine has not been clipped in place for 2 years almost ot the day and it has been fine. But that may be just my luck...LOL

Cheers