Grabbing squeeky clutch
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Grabbing squeeky clutch
'98 b3000 3.0 liter. Bought with 48,000 miles. I drive a mix of highway and traffic, but I am very easy on the clutch. Replaced the master cylinedr at around 55k due to hard shifting and that solved that problem. It now has 133k miles. In the last 1.5k miles, I have notice after driving for a while40 minutes or so, the clutch will start to get grabby and release when the pedal is much higher off the floor. It won't do it consistently, it will just do it once, then several shifts will be fine, then it might do it again. Each time it does it, the clutch also lets out a wierd squeek/squeel that sounds like it's coming from the pedal or master cylinder area. I know a new clutch is in my near future, but I'm not sure the clutch is fully shot yet, but I'm wondering if perhaps another master cylinder failure. Any ideas?
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I think clutch disk is too old.... have you vibration on start?
The most difficult is to drop a tranny.... to replace pressure plate and disk is about 20-30 minutes... When I converted my aero to 5st tranny i installed external slave cyl. to replace it w/o tranny removing.
The most difficult is to drop a tranny.... to replace pressure plate and disk is about 20-30 minutes... When I converted my aero to 5st tranny i installed external slave cyl. to replace it w/o tranny removing.
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pull the rubber plug on the bellhousing and look at the slave cylinder.They are prone to leaking fluid.this will mix with the clutch dust and cause sticking.If it is engaging at the top of the pedal stroke,a clutch replacement is probably needed.If the slave unit
is leaking,the transmission will have to come out for this anyway,so I would recommend replacing the clutch pressure plate,disc and pilot.
is leaking,the transmission will have to come out for this anyway,so I would recommend replacing the clutch pressure plate,disc and pilot.
