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Easily removing slave, no hydraulics:
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Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Thu, 28 Feb 2013 17:39:28 Share Post by Email
In Reply to: Re: Easy way to remove clutch/slave out of car?, DET17 [Profile/Gallery] , Thu, 28 Feb 2013 13:31:56
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No prying, really pretty quick, no fuss and no sawzall:

Pry bail loose and remove cover plate at radiator end of things, and unscrew the little nylon slinger and put a long M8 bolt into the end of the clutch shaft, through a big washer and the hole in the end of a carpenter's spring nail-pulling bar. Tighten down and pop the bar and the clutch shaft will pull free far enough to be out of the way. THEN...

1. Remove every other one of the six pressure-plate-to-flywheel bolts, and back the other three out most of the way.

2. Pry, but it's NOT REALLY PRYING as the pressure plate is under no pressure, the pressure plate shell away from the flywheel up a little bit. Now pop three fat nuts, 1/2" SAE seem to work fine, under the ears of the pressure plate's forged steel heart, where they stick out, at three places around the circumference of things, at the point where a little steel strap is riveted that links the forging to the pressed-steel bell shaped part of the pressure plate. The rivets will hold the nuts where they belong (One of those extension magnets helps holding onto them and positioning them) while you undertake STEP 3:

3. Now retighten the three remaining pressure plate-to-flywheel bolts, evenly, until they're all the way in. This in effect jacks the pressure plate up off the flywheel and depresses the spring fingers in pressure plate's center, relieving all pressure on the throwout bearing and letting you, in STEP 4:

4. Undo the allen screws holding the clutch slave to the tranny case, and remove clutch slave and throwout bearing from the car. No pinched fingers, no cussing, no raging sawzall and metal filings all over everywhere and no risk of getting a cut or scraping knuckles or breaking a sawzall blade.

You even get a spare slave that you can consider rebuilding.

If the hydraulic line is still attached to the slave, you can actually leave it attached while you do the above. Or, at appropriate time for you any time before Step 4 in the above instructions, you can crack it loose and unscrew it and remove it.

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