[DMCForum] Re: Clutch line and vac leaks
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[DMCForum] Re: Clutch line and vac leaks



Everybody poo poo's plastic clutch line, but my truck's been running
one for 196,000 miles...

I'd suspect master or slave cylinder walls pitted while car sat (are
just made of white metal), then scored piston seals when you started
moving them again. Seals actually have very small contact surface with
cylinder walls. Moreover, only thing lubricating them is brake fluid
in system (cylinder walls were bone dry when pistons started moving
again). My AMC uses Girling clutch htdraulics, and they have been
neverending source of problems. Good to go for a year or two, then
it's time for new seals. Fortunately I can buy for $15.

Pump clutch pedal several times before every shift, and double clutch.
You'll loose a lot of fluid, but it'll get you home. Remember car can
be slam shifted too (name sounds terrible, but if you find sweet spots
will slip into gears as easy as can be. Is a good thing to practice
before you need it). One Christmas Eve, in Christmas Eve traffic, slam
shifted AMC home from post office with clutch pedal unwelded from
connecting rod, including several stop lights. If you know car well
enough can start it in gear with extremely little bucking & jerking.

Bill Robertson
#5939

>--- In DMCForum@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "cruznmd" <racuti1@xxxx> wrote:
> I had my car running pretty well today considering I still have 6
> injector seal leaks.
> 
> Just when I was taking it around the lot for a test drive, the clutch
> went soft. I still have the old plastic line. I already intend to
> replace it with the braided stainless one.
> 
> My question: Is this one of those "seperate the body from the frame"
> projects?, or can you run it without doing that?
> 
> Mike C is bringing my seals and O-ring by tomorrow which is good. The
> car is still back-firing or doing these tiny but sharp "sneezes" out
> the exhaust pipe and/or back through the fuel/air mixture control
> unit. It happens less as the engine gets hotter.
> 
> Is this a product of vacuum leaks, or should I be looking elsewhere?
> 
> Rich
> #5335



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