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Offline Mr.Tom

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Clutch moves itself.
« 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.
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gtigolfthree

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #1 on: 27 August 2009, 20:47 »
Something to do with the pedals, take it back to who ever fitted the cable.
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #2 on: 27 August 2009, 21:17 »
Sounds like a cable problem.
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Offline Mr.Tom

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #3 on: 29 August 2009, 23:48 »
It was. The self adjusting part was faulty. Seems it was constricting itself. All sorted now :)
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #4 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.
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Offline Mr.Tom

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #5 on: 30 August 2009, 00:53 »
The garage did it all for me, so not sure. Quite possible they didn't, hehe.
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Offline Thegolfman

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #6 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.
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Offline Mr.Tom

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #7 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.
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Offline Wayne

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #8 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
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Offline Mr.Tom

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Re: Clutch moves itself.
« Reply #9 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.
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