Originally Posted by
p38arover
I had a similar thing many years back on my Hillman Hunter. The clutch slave cylinder was replaced. That night I drove to the drive-in theatre and, as I pressed the clutch to go in, smoke poured out from under the bonnet and car. All the other cars around me seemed to disappear in all directions.
The mechanic had routed the plastic hydraulic line too close to the exhaust down pipes and the plastic had softened but not melted away. When I pressed the clutch, it had an aneurysm and failed, spraying fluid all over the exhaust.
I would have gone to a new mechanic after that but I was the useless bloody mechanic.
