SYMPTOM | PROBLEM | CURE |
Clutch slip-Engine reces on acceleration but car dosen't
| NO free movement in first inch or so of pedal travel.
| Adjust clutch as per handbook.Take to technition for clutch adjustment |
Oil on friction faces
| Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
Faulty Release mechanism |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
weak springs or diaphragm. |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
Clutch snatches-difficult tolet in gently
| Oil on friction faces
| Dismentle clutch and examine. replace if necessary |
worn friction faces
| Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
broken or distorted pressure plate |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
splines sticking on gear box shaft |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
Bent gearboc shaft |
dismentle clutch box and examine. |
Clutch Judders on take-off
| Linning out of alignment
| Repalce clutch linning. check fly wheel condition with dial guage. Reface the fly wheel on machine
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Pressure plate and flywheel misaligned
| Replace |
Distorted friction plate |
Dismental clutch and replce as necessary |
Clutch drags-difficult to engage gears
| wrong adjustment. too mucg free movement of pedal and thus in suffecient
withdrawal movement
| Readjust. check clutch master cylinder reservior for loss fluid |
Oil on friction faces
| Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
Distorted pressure plate |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
splines sticking on gear box shaft |
Dismentle clutch and replce as necessary |
Release bearing worn |
Replace release bearing |
Clutch is noisy rattles
| Worn release baering or broken antirattle srings if noise disappears when pedal is slightly depressed
| Replace Thrust/ release bearing |
If no improvement, friction plate or gear box shaft are worn
| Replace clutch disc |
Knocking at idle
| Fricition plate splines worn
| Replace clutch disc |
Gear shaft or its bearing in flywheel worn
| Replace Bearings |