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Re: Grease the clutch cable? Posted by SWEDECAR [Email]  (#112)  [Profile/Gallery]
(more from SWEDECAR) on Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:59:34
In Reply to: Grease the clutch cable?, kyle morley, Sat, 14 Aug 2004 08:01:48 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
It is a whole bunch of small things that together work to make the clutch hard to operate when it's getting closer to the end of lifespan.
The whole lenght of clutch cable is one friction point. The round shaft into transmission (cluth arm) is another place where it gets sticky. Clutch fork contact areas against the throw out bearing is another.
Throw out bearing sliding on the clutch shaft seal housing (oh, that's a bad one) and then you have the throwout bearing contact surface against pressure plate fingers.
The throwout bearing surface gets hollowed out from contacting pressure plate fingers and as more it gets hollowed out as more area it is to creata drag/friction when the T/O bearing is pushing in the pressure plate.
As the dealer say too, when the clutch disc wear down, the pressure plate fingers moves out more and more and that changes the angle that the force of T/O bearing has to overcome to depress the clutch.
So the problem is that you cannot really go in a lubricate just one spot and be over and done with it since it is several small spots that interact with each other to create friction.
It is to begin with a less than perfect designed clutch system even though in general it looks like a whole bunch of other brand cars clutch systems.
The people creating it didn't take into account that the clutch would wear and create dust that would stick in the grease applied to all sliding areas.
Sure, you can try to douse the area of clutch system visible through the inspection hole but what you do is to get more grease in there that collects and bind more clutch dust making the clutch even stiffer further down the road.
Anders
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