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When the slave cylinder on my '89 died, I pried up the pressure plate and put nuts between the pressure plate and the flywheel to give enough clearance to fit the spacer tool into the pressure plate. Then I popped the nuts out and was able to remove the clutch assembly and slave cylinder.
FWIW, I've never had good luck with trying to saw out a slave cylinder, even using a real, Official, gen-yew-wine Sawzall and good, brand new metal blades (so no suggestions that I was using the wrong tools, please). Even the abrasive blade didn't cut the pistion. The steel of the piston is just too darned hard - the aluminum shells cut like butter, though.
Prying it out like I described above only takes a few minutes. Remember that, when you turn the flywheel to remove the pressure plate bolts, turn it counter-clockwise as you look at it. Turning it the other way can have some detrimental effects on the timing chain.
And, when you pry up on the pressure plate, be VERY careful with your fingers - if the nuts slip out, it'll snap down to the flywheel and I don't even want to think about the results if your fingers are in there.
Posts in this Thread:
- Clutch peddle to Floor, fluid in front, Barry, Sun, 27 Aug 2006 23:27:37
- To change a clutch without hydraulics, RayF, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 12:28:40
- Re: Clutch peddle to Floor, fluid in front, RS
, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 06:59:58 <-- Viewing This Message - Re: Clutch peddle to Floor, fluid in front, diskullman, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:56:39
- Re: Clutch peddle to Floor, fluid in front, diskullman, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:56:34
- Re: Clutch peddle to Floor, fluid in front, diskullman, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 05:56:34
- The engine is in the car backwards, whitesaab, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 11:33:57
- Mixing Synthetic Brake Fluid with regular Dot 4, Barry, Mon, 28 Aug 2006 19:12:09
- Re: Mixing Synthetic Brake Fluid with regular Dot 4, Russ Nester, Wed, 30 Aug 2006 12:55:28
- You mean put grease in the slave?, Barry, Wed, 30 Aug 2006 22:45:53
- Wow, I love that, Russ., RayF, Wed, 30 Aug 2006 20:05:28
- Re: Mixing Synthetic Brake Fluid with regular Dot 4, scott Young, Wed, 30 Aug 2006 18:36:04
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