Soft clutch pedal

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Tom Ward

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My clutch pedal has suddenly lost any resistance, normally depressing the clutch is a heavy task, now a small toddler could do it, its soft and has no resistance.
I can change gear - although the bite point is approx 1mm off the floor but its difficult.
No clutch fluid leaks or odd noises.

I think the spring in the cylinder has gone, am I going in the right direction?
 
hi tom
sorry to here you have problems, I agree with mondo had the same thing happen to me in a round about sort of way the clutch fork arm had a hole punched through it, this is a common fault with disco,s.
All the same symptoms as you describe in the early stage then the pedal went harder than the times crossword.
Only solution is gear box out i had a clutch fitted at the same time and asked for a reinforced fork arm too. Best part of £500.00 sorry to be the bearer of bad news m8.
hope you sort it all the best:)
 
Check the hyraulics first... just incase there is air or just a lack of fluid although no leaks have been found it could be leaking INTO the bellhousing and you would not see it...

As mondo says, I think the fork is wearing through on the pivot point, or the arms have bent on it... HOWEVER it could however also be the pivot wire on the clutch cover, this is what happened to me a month ago, I thought it was the fork at the time too.

A friend (CharlesY) towed me to his friend/neighbours house who had a hydraulic ramp, we stuck the landy on that and proceeded to remove the gearbox, at the end of the day, the fork and release bearing came out looking brand new...

After a helluva lot of work, we discovered that it was in fact the clutch cover, where the diaphragm spring essentially pivots is a piece of wire that goes round under the spring in the clutch cover, this had worn away and come adrift from its fastening, the result was that the whole spring was just moved in rather that pivoting, and gave for a VERY close to the floor bite point, so close that moving the carpet away allowed it to JUST about work at first.
 
Cheers for all the input on this one - luckily for me it was only an air lock.
I bled the system and everything has gone back to normal... so it was an airlock after all that.
 
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