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Slippage and bleeding not related
Posted by David Ingram (more from David Ingram) on Wed, 11 Jul 2007 09:46:41
In Reply to: Clutch woes, Ben, Tue, 10 Jul 2007 20:12:32
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If you've got lousy hydraulics, then the result would be that you can't disengage the clutch. You'd press the pedal and get no disengagement, so you'd be essentially stuck in gear all the time.
If you've got anything close to normal hydraulic operation, leave that alone unless you absolutely have no choice. These clutch hydraulics are subject to the killing-it-with-kindness rule, meaning that as soon as you go to fix it, something will break.
Now, as for the slippage, this is a separate issue. I very much doubt you could have so seriously contaminated your clutch by spilling coolant down in there to have triggered this severe slippage. I think you probably have a more fundamental issue like oil contamination (did you replace the rear main seal when you did the slave/clutch? Did you use loctite on the flywheel bolts?).
I'm unclear whether you mean to say you replaced just the slave or the entire clutch? If the whole clutch, did you clean up the flywheel before reassembly, along with doing the rear main seal and flywheel bolts? I'd look into the possibility of oil contamination myself.
As to rebuild kits, don't use them. They live short lives due to scoring of the cylinder walls. It's best to replace the master and slave with actual-factual Saab replacement parts. Aftermarket parts have a very bad reputation, deservedly so. In my case an aftermarket slave lasted less than 30 minutes.
Sorry not to offer more encouragement.
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