Thread: Clutch needed already

Originally Posted by harro

Pretty easy,
Take the plate of the top from inside the engine bay and you can see the pushrod and trunnion.
The pushrod has a nylock at the end and two locking nuts on the inside of the trunnion. Adjusting either way give you pedal height up or down but the important thing is that there is no pressure on the pushrod when the pedal is at rest.
Feel the pushrod with your fingers it should feel loose with a bit of sideways play. If it is stiff you will need to adjust the nuts.
Freeplay is set with the two locking nuts.
The trunnion should be floating between the nylock and the other two.
Do not do the nuts up hard against the trunnion.
A couple of mm freeplay is enough.

It may take a bit of trial and error but a bloody good thing to learn especially in a Defender.
And that freeplay is critical.

Mine is an 02 defender still with original clutch.

Cheers,
Paul.

Thanks for the info.
I'll give it a try. Can't hurt.

Originally Posted by jem510

hi noogie did you replace the duel mass fly wheel? if you have excessive play in the fly wheel this can result in slippage but it will make a racked before this should happen.
p.s. most solid kit are a good way to get your gear box rebuilt.

No I put a dual mass flywgeel in because for that reason.
Im hoping it's just an adjustment as I haven't done mre than 15000ks on this kit.
I changed everything needed when I had it done too.