Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 09:20:25 -0800
Reply-To: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
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From: gary hradek <hradek@YAHOO.COM>
Subject: Repeated Slave Cylinder Failure
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Doug,
I do not believe that it is water that is causing
your problem as most people bleed there systems every
two years and you are already doing it every 9 months.
The idea that there is too much pressure has merit but
I would expect that it would also effect the
mastercylinder as well, in time.
Is it possible that the slave cylinder is being driven
too far so that the piston is being pushed beyond its
specified distance thus causing the premature failure.
If this is the case you make consider checking the
thrust of the master cylinder.
The other explanation for this condition may be that
the clutch is wearing thin and the slave cylinder is
positioned out too far before the disengaging
extension. I would hope someone on the list could
ferrit out an answer here. Maybe a good place to
start is to measure how much your slave cylinder
piston travels out when fully extended?
regards gary
--- doug.alcock@hewitt.com wrote:
>
>
> Hi Gary,
>
> The Slave is leaking --- since I don't change
> it myself I don't know if
> it's a consistent failure and my mechanic who has
> changed the last two didn't
> comment. As he's German and owns an 84 Westy himself
> I'm pretty sure he's using
> the correct fluid (DOT 3 I think is what Bentley
> says). I live in Toronto,
> Canada --- it gets cold sometimes but this winter it
> hasn't been below -6
> Celsius.
>
> Thanks,
> Doug
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 12:23:32 -0500
From: Doug Alcock <doug.alcock@HEWITT.COM>
Subject: Repeated Slave Cylinder Failure
Hi gang,
I just had my clutch slave cylinder replace for
the 3rd time since
July of
2000 ---- so I got about 9 months out of each one.
While they were all
under
warranty it seems to me that something else is wrong
here. Surely they
should
last longer than that. Any ideas what the problem
could be???
Cheers,
Doug Alcock
'84 Westy "BlueBelle"
Toronto, Canada
http://www.torontovanagon.com
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