Posted April 22, 201014 yr Hello folks, Driving home tonight when I heard a bang and my clutch pedal dropped straight to the floor and stayed there! At first I assumed it was the cable but its still in one piece. I don't think its the clutch as there was no burning smell or anything. That leaves me to think it might be the self adjuster thing on the pedal assembly. Anyone got any ideas!? Thanks in advance,Bob
April 22, 201014 yr Hello folks, Driving home tonight when I heard a bang and my clutch pedal dropped straight to the floor and stayed there! At first I assumed it was the cable but its still in one piece. I don't think its the clutch as there was no burning smell or anything. That leaves me to think it might be the self adjuster thing on the pedal assembly. Anyone got any ideas!? Thanks in advance,Bob exact thing happend to mine not long ago... was you by any chance leathering it and slammed it into the next gear lol?then as you changed it just fell to the floor never returned. im not sure what the problem is but all i did was turn the little fiddly screw near the clutch pedal and it brought it back up about half way, its not perfect but atleast it drives till i can afford a new clutch kit! Edited April 22, 201014 yr by danny1987
April 22, 201014 yr Author clutch ratchet gone? Is that the bit above the pedal? exact thing happend to mine not long ago... was you by any chance leathering it and slammed it into the next gear lol?then as you changed it just fell to the floor never returned. im not sure what the problem is but all i did was turn the little fiddly screw near the clutch pedal and it brought it back up about half way, its not perfect but atleast it drives till i can afford a new clutch kit! Yeah I was LoL ... Skoda RS up my derrierre too! But thanks for the info I will give that a try tomorrow
April 22, 201014 yr People call it a ratchet but correct name is clutch quadrant its a pedal box strip search clutch rartchet in this section was one of my first jobs on here for a fellow member 2yrs ago lol and have helped several out with it since: thumb: http://www.southwalesprops.com/images/cpr2.jpg looks like that Edited April 22, 201014 yr by stoney
April 22, 201014 yr Author People call it a ratchet but correct name is clutch quadrant its a pedal box strip search clutch rartchet in this section was one of my first jobs on here for a fellow member 2yrs ago lol and have helped several out with it since: thumb: http://www.southwalesprops.com/images/cpr2.jpg looks like that Thanks stoney very useful! By the way haynes shows that I should have a 'toothed segment tension spring' but I don't ... is that what could have broke? Cheers!
April 24, 201014 yr Author Folks has anyone who has done this job (replaced the ratchet thing) got any tips? What secures the pin in place?
April 24, 201014 yr firstly are you a paitent man cause this job can be a bit stressfull . you remove pedal shaft by removing clips on shaft they are on tight i use long nose pliers to pull them off .you will have to remove 2 clips to remove shaft slide off brake pedal keeping all bushes and spacers in order. if you are lucky you will have a manual adjuster bit easier to do allen bolt on top of pedal.good luck
April 25, 201014 yr Author Ok thanks for the help ... Your not kidding it being a stressful job its bloody awful!!!!!!!!!! LoL!!!!!!!
April 27, 201014 yr Mine went a couple of months ago (It's very common on cars after 80k miles apparently), looked at doing it myself but unless you are small or take the drivers seat out it is a pig. Paid a garage to do it for me for 60 euros, quadrant cost about 10 euros so that was only 50 euros for labour, not bad really and it saved me a lot of swearing :-) Rigpig
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