405 Clutch

[Ollie Walsh]

Bilbo Baggins wrote:

I may have a problem with my 405 GLX TD clutch.

Despite having covered 142,000 mostly motorway miles, the clutch is fine. It doesn't slip and although it bites fairly high (as can be expected) all is well.

Unfortunately, every now and again when depressing the pedal it suddenly snaps down an extra inch or so with a clicky-clunky sort of noise which can be felt through the foot. If the pedal is brought up and depressed again everything is fine. It feels like a problem with the linkage to the pedal.

Any ideas?
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I don't know wheter or not the 405 has an automatic adjuster, but if it does it's probably slipping sometimes due to damages splines.

Ollie

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

I may have a problem with my 405 GLX TD clutch.

Despite having covered 142,000 mostly motorway miles, the clutch is fine. It doesn't slip and although it bites fairly high (as can be expected) all is well.

Unfortunately, every now and again when depressing the pedal it suddenly snaps down an extra inch or so with a clicky-clunky sort of noise which can be felt through the foot. If the pedal is brought up and depressed again everything is fine. It feels like a problem with the linkage to the pedal.

Any ideas?

KW

 

[Anthony G Walker]

I had a 405 and was more than happy with it. the problem with mine was a few of the springs in the pressure plate had broken.does the clutch seem hard to press? there is also a small white plastic pivotal device that goes from the bottom of the pedal to the cable that wears out. when I first realised that the pedal was becoming hard to press this moulded part snapped and after discovering the problem I thought id cracked it. only for a few weeks though, it broke again!(because of the effort required to press it. hope this helps Tony

 

[Bilbo Baggins]

I think it's the earlier model which had the plastic bit on the pedal. A friend of mine got though 2 or 3 in his.

Mine is a '95 model. The clutch pedal is fine and doesn't seem to require any more effort than when I first bought it 6 years ago.

 

[Grrr]

mine did this,there is an adjuster clipped to the steering rack(not that you can adjust it though)i replaced the cable and it cured it. 95, hunter model,but I think all the cables are the same.

Gary