sharing my painfull moment

[Trip]

Yesterday i had a go to adjust my clutch pedal travel. Those japanese were either on drugs or heavily lacking sex when they designed the clutch pedal.

I ended up removing the drivers seat, plastic of the lower part of the dash board, plastic surrounding the steering column, and unbolting the steering column so i can have better access to the bloody pedal. Crawled upright head first under there with all the weight of the steering column on my belly. Jiggled the column a couple of times to get part of my hands in there and slowly but surely managed to adjust it.

I was so frustrated with all this, that i re-assembled everything back without even testing the fucking pedal. Fired up the engine and found out that i had adjusted it too much and when i press the pedal all the way down, the last few mm of travel were producing a faint ticking sound coming from gearbox. Oh God..:doh: It must have been the clutch cover's "fins" or the trust bearing going in too much and hitting the clutch disk which results in the ticking sound.

Fuck-it .. Like a complete Moron (with a capital M) I had to De-assemble everything again and re-adjust it.


I hope i won't EVER AGAIN come in need to adjust the clutch pedal.

 

[PobodY]

What I found is that because it's hydraulic, it's kinda self-adjusting. You can fiddle with the amount of freeplay before the cylinder engages, but the cylinder only has a finite volume so as long as there's enough free play for it to release the hydraulics look after themselves.

You're quite right though; it's a real b!tch to get in there, and there's no room to get your tools on the adjusting rod.

 

[johnsy]

the trials and tribulation's of R' owner ship!

iv just fitted a ss mani and newer turbo, wot a ball ache that was, feckin 'bastard' mani bolt and the one above the alternator had snapped in the head,

 

[shroom]

which one is the bastard? the one sort of in the middle that you cant get a ratchet to? I know the one by the alternator was a pain, forgot to disconect battery and got a bit of a shock

 

[Trip]

The worse bolt on the mani is probably the bottom bolt on the third cylinder.

 

[stumo]

Yesterday i had a go to adjust my clutch pedal travel. Those japanese were either on drugs or heavily lacking sex when they designed the clutch pedal.

I ended up removing the drivers seat, plastic of the lower part of the dash board, plastic surrounding the steering column, and unbolting the steering column so i can have better access to the bloody pedal. Crawled upright head first under there with all the weight of the steering column on my belly. Jiggled the column a couple of times to get part of my hands in there and slowly but surely managed to adjust it.

I was so frustrated with all this, that i re-assembled everything back without even testing the fucking pedal. Fired up the engine and found out that i had adjusted it too much and when i press the pedal all the way down, the last few mm of travel were producing a faint ticking sound coming from gearbox. Oh God..:doh: It must have been the clutch cover's "fins" or the trust bearing going in too much and hitting the clutch disk which results in the ticking sound.

Fuck-it .. Like a complete Moron (with a capital M) I had to De-assemble everything again and re-adjust it.


I hope i won't EVER AGAIN come in need to adjust the clutch pedal.

I don't see why you had to do all that.....it's an awkward job but it's doable with everything in place....:roll:

 

[johnsy]

The worse bolt on the mani is probably the bottom bolt on the third cylinder.

thats the one ,

i think some where along its life someone had superglued it in place ,i gave up after 2 hours of trying to crack the seal with a spanner and screw driver and just put a cobalt 5mm then 8 mm drill bit through the side of the nut

i found it quite easy to extract the snapped stud too, those cobalt drill bits are a life saver plus my grabit stud extactor , i went to my local motor factors and picked up new studs (95peach) and bolts(45p) think nissan wanted summit like £4 a stud

 

[olliecast]

i managed to get in, upside down, with my sparco seat bolted in and my 6 point cage in!

did have the steering wheel off though.

you sure it wasn`t just the pin in the pedal clicking as it was getting pressure at a different angle?

 

[Trip]

I don't see why you had to do all that.....it's an awkward job but it's doable with everything in place....:roll:

i couldn't get any tools in there apart from a spanner size 12. The shaft was turned round with my fingertips 1deg at a time .
I tried all types of pliers and long noses but i couldn't get the right angle to grip and turn. Being in the garage on my own, i had to literally look by the touch for tools sitting around me.

 

[olliecast]

i ended up using a real small set of long nose pliars

 

[Tim]

i managed to get in, upside down, with my sparco seat bolted in and my 6 point cage in!

did have the steering wheel off though.

you sure it wasn`t just the pin in the pedal clicking as it was getting pressure at a different angle?

Someone should have closed the door and filmed you trying to escape :lol:

 

[Trip]

i you sure it wasn`t just the pin in the pedal clicking as it was getting pressure at a different angle?

Sure. the clicks were constant and coming from the gearbox.

 

[darkyGTI-R]

The worse bolt on the mani is probably the bottom bolt on the third cylinder.

Yep that's the fooker lol what a bitch you need to dislocate your bloody wrist!

 

[MarkTurbo]

I found a pair of these are the best thing for adjusting the rod on the clutch master cylinder ;-)

As stumo said theres no need to take anything out to adjust it! I even managed to do it on a friends pulsar with a fractured wrist in less than 10 mins, although the cast on my left arm did get in the way a little bit :doh: