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General => The garage => Topic started by: Mr.Tom on 27 August 2009, 20:37

Title: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Mr.Tom on 27 August 2009, 20:37

Just had a new clutch cable put into my Mk3 (at great expense :/ ))
Was fine for a while, but now the clutch pedal depresses itself when I accellerate. Pops back up after a while, but is a pain.
Clutch is still engaged, and the engine runs fine. Just a little worrying.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: gtigolfthree on 27 August 2009, 20:47

Something to do with the pedals, take it back to who ever fitted the cable.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Wayne on 27 August 2009, 21:17

Sounds like a cable problem.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Mr.Tom on 29 August 2009, 23:48

It was. The self adjusting part was faulty. Seems it was constricting itself. All sorted now :)

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Wayne on 30 August 2009, 00:02

Quote from: Mr.Tom on 29 August 2009, 23:48

It was. The self adjusting part was faulty. Seems it was constricting itself. All sorted now :)

No worries, have you removed the white clip all ok after fitting the cable.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Mr.Tom on 30 August 2009, 00:53

The garage did it all for me, so not sure. Quite possible they didn't, hehe.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Thegolfman on 31 August 2009, 04:39

Auto adjusting clutch cables have always been a pain for me.
I prefer manualy adjusting ones as they give a better pedal feel.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Mr.Tom on 01 September 2009, 07:17

Yeah. There is a dead space before the pedal does anything now. I'm thinking it was manual before.

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Wayne on 01 September 2009, 11:36

Quote from: Mr.Tom on 01 September 2009, 07:17

Yeah. There is a dead space before the pedal does anything now. I'm thinking it was manual before.

You should always have a small amount of freeplay

Title: Re: Clutch moves itself.
Post by: Mr.Tom on 01 September 2009, 20:18

AH, righto. Perhaps there wasn't any on the old cable because it was on the way out then :)
All sorted now, works fine and no problems so far. Thanks for the advice.