[DML] Re: Clutch removal from Workshop Manual

["ryanpwright" <dmcnews_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

--- In dmcnews@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, "bluemax86" <massimot@xxxx> wrote:
> 
> 1. Raise vehicle on hoist
> 2. After engine exhaust has cooled, disconnect clutch line from slave
> cylinder.
> 3. Remove 2 bolts securing slave cylinder to clutch fork.
> 4. Remove slave cylinder.
> 
> So removing the slave clutch cylinder should be a piece of cake! I
> don't know what the fuss is all about :)
> 
> Max
> PS. I hope I don't get in trouble for posting part of a page from the
> manual.

They forgot a few steps:

1. Raise vehicle on hoist
1.5 Pray.
2. After engine exhaust has cooled, disconnect clutch line from slave
cylinder.
2.1: Pour a gallon of used oil over your head and go roll in the mud.
That's how you'll look when you're finished trying to get at the
stupid slave from below, so just get it overwith now.
2.2: Burn yourself on the exhaust you thought was cool.
2.3: Swear.
2.4: Finally get wrench on clutch line.
2.5. Bend rigid line too far. Swear, order a new one and find
alternate transportation for a few days.

3. Remove 2 bolts securing slave cylinder to clutch fork.
3.1: But you have to find them first.
3.2: Get your six year old to help you - his hands are small enough to
fit.
3.3: End up doing it yourself because the six year old cries when you
dangle him upside down above the engine and demand an explanation for
his inability to remove those bolts.
3.4: Shove your own hands in there, cutting them up in the process.
Realize you can't even break the bolts and swear.
3.5: In anger, use too much force and sheer the bolt heads clean off,
leaving the threads now locked into your bellhousing.

4. Remove slave cylinder.


Actually, mine was really easy. But then I had the foresight to just
pull the entire transmission out first. ;)

-Ryan








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