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My clutch is driving me nuts! .Its a new clutch/pressure plate and release bearing.Out on a run when cold its fine,when it heats up i cant get it in gear.Took the truck out of the shed on sunday to wash off last weekends mud,couldnt get it into gear so started in gear to get it out of shed,washed truck (major water blast underneath as i'm putting in new diffs) went to put truck back in shed clutch engages like nothings wrong.....What the..!!! anyone got any idea whats going on?
cheers Al

My clutch issue in my hilux, http://www.offroadexpress.co.nz/Forums/ ... 13&t=19160 turned out to be a stuffed master cylinder. although that was having trouble engaging gears hot or cold. The old master cylinder was rusty and filled with muddy/watery hydraulic fluid.

It might not have mated properly to the flywheel. Could be sticking as its not quite aligned up. But I am only guessing.

Hope it doesn't happen to me when i get a new clutch, my old one is on its way out and the thrust bearing is going too.

Good luck anyway

suzookyman wrote:Took the truck out of the shed on sunday to wash off last weekends mud,couldnt get it into gear

How much mud has got up inside the bellhousing?
I had similar issues with my old samurai and it turned out that mud had worked its way past the cover plate and filled the bellhousing. I am guessing it got between the moving parts. A good wash upp there with the hose seemed to fix it (tho I'm not sure what effect it had on the bearings, etc)

What sort of zook is it? if its cable eg. a SJ have you played with the adjustment of the cable?

its an escudo with a cable clutch, i doubt its mud as it started to happen not long after the new clutch went in and the housing has a cover thats tight and shouldn't let any mud in.

wow my scud dont have a cover, i can see the flywheel when i get underneath, my clutch cable tore through the firewall something u should check because it had silmilar symtoms and then one day it wouldnt work at all because the firewall started flexing