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Omega Help Area => Omega General Help => Topic started by: JamesV6CDX on 20 September 2007, 18:32:15
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Please could someone describe to me, the exact symptoms you see, when the clutch "drags"?
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Difficulty engaging gears, normally. Especially 1st and reverse from a standstill.
Car creeping forward slightly when in gear and clutch is fully depressed?
If pumping the pedal a couple of times cures it it could be a hydraulic problem, otherwise maladjustment or contamination of the surfaces of the clutch?
Kevin
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Clutch drag is when you floor the clutch peddle but the clutch does not fully disengage.
This makes gear changing difficult. If it's really bad, you can't engage first gear with the car stationary and the engine running.
Eddie.
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Beat me to it! :y
Eddie.
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From ::
http://www.nationwideautocentres.co.uk/services_clutches.asp
DRAG – Clutch cable not at correct adjustment or centre plate sticking on splines. The symptoms of this would be difficulty in obtaining gear, particularly first and reverse gears.
HTH
:)
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I've had problems on and off for the past 3m. At one point 1st from standstill was impossible as was reverse - the trick is to slip it into 3rd first and then select the gear.
Oddly it's been fine for the past 6 weeks. It happened after I flushed the coolant system but I could never see any connection - just wierd :-/
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I've had problems on and off for the past 3m. At one point 1st from standstill was impossible as was reverse - the trick is to slip it into 3rd first and then select the gear.
Oddly it's been fine for the past 6 weeks. It happened after I flushed the coolant system but I could never see any connection - just wierd :-/
I've experienced the same problem since dropping the coolant a few times while installing LPG in my car. Strange!
It can be very difficult to engage gear sometimes, more so when engine is hot.
What can be done to ease gear changes? fluid change?
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I've got this same problem right now. First thing in the morning, it takes some going to get the car into reverse, and then 1st when moving out of the car park.
I've recently had the clutch replaced after it was on it's way out. Apart from charging me £360 (ouch) to replace the clutch and the slave concentric doohickey, the guy did say it can take a few hundred miles to sort itself out.
Should I be getting them to check it again?
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Hmmm, tough call.
It should work from day one.
Also, I have never seen a slave fail on an Omega and it baffles me as to why some change it becasue its about the same price as the rest put together.
As a test for you all......when you first start the car, put it in 3rd gear with your foot on the clutch when you crank it over....does it now go in all gears without any problems?
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Hmmm, tough call.
It should work from day one.
Also, I have never seen a slave fail on an Omega and it baffles me as to why some change it becasue its about the same price as the rest put together.
As a test for you all......when you first start the car, put it in 3rd gear with your foot on the clutch when you crank it over....does it now go in all gears without any problems?
Sometimes yes, sometimes no.
What does this indicate? I guess it's saying clutch is OK, and it's a possibly box/synchro issue?
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Mark - Yes that worked for me too :)
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Presume it's not a clutch issue, then? :-/
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Clutch plate is sticking......are you loosing any coolant?
By putting it in third when you crank it you effectively lock the gearbox input shaft and as the flywheel turns it frees the clutch friction plate from the flywheel and pressure plate.
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Clutch plate is sticking......are you loosing any coolant?
By putting it in third when you crank it you effectively lock the gearbox input shaft and as the flywheel turns it frees the clutch friction plate from the flywheel and pressure plate.
Ahhh.. learn something new everyday!
If I have lost any coolant, it will only be a few ml in the last 1000 miles, I've not had to top up.
How is this coolant relevent Mark? Are you thinking a leak at the back would contaminate the clutch? Or is it related in some other way?
:)
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I have a suspision that a coolant leak at the rear could result in coolant getting through the bell housing to block joint and onto the clutch and/or flywheel...
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I have a suspision that a coolant leak at the rear could result in coolant getting through the bell housing to block joint and onto the clutch and/or flywheel...
Shall I just stop pussy-footing around and throw a new clutch in it, then? ;D
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I have a suspision that a coolant leak at the rear could result in coolant getting through the bell housing to block joint and onto the clutch and/or flywheel...
WOW! while cutting into the coolant pipes for the LPG install i did have a small leak to the rear which i have now resolved, so from what you say Mark i guess i have contaminated my clutch?
I didn't drive with the leak as i noticed it when i started the car on the drive, i had smoke puffing out all over the place.
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The gearbox bell housing just bolts to the back of the engine - flat to flat (metal to metal).
If you pour water down the back on the engine it's likely that some may drip through the joint. And below the joint is pretty much where the clutch plate sits. So it's possible some may get in there - but hopefully not.
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I have never seen a slave fail on an Omega and it baffles me as to why some change it becasue its about the same price as the rest put together.
We had the slave cylinder fail on our DTi - reversing a trailer up a hill :-[ Not to be changed as a matter of course though really :o
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The gearbox bell housing just bolts to the back of the engine - flat to flat (metal to metal).
If you pour water down the back on the engine it's likely that some may drip through the joint. And below the joint is pretty much where the clutch plate sits. So it's possible some may get in there - but hopefully not.
Does anyone think i stand a change of taking the clutch out and giving it a clean to cure the problem? I have never taken a clutch off before and am not too sure of the work involved.
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The job is straightforward but quite a big job. The gearbox is heavy.
If your clutch is slipping you want to change the clutch if you're going to all the trouble of taking the gearbox off. I wouldn't fancy taking it all off cleaning it only to find it still slips and needs doing again...