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sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 09-02-2012
just got in the car to head up to uni, started her up, put my foot on the clutch, then, the cable snapped!! luckily i have a spare cable in my boot cuz i was going to change it anyway as it was really stiff, but now im half way through changing it, took off the airbox, the battery box, got the cable off at the gearbox end and from under the car, but now i cant pull the fecker through because peugeot in all their wisdom decided to out the brake servo on top of the hole in the bulkhead where it comes trough!
and on top of that, a weekend or two ago i changed pretty much everything possible on the front of my car [suspension wise, 'bones, droplinks, bushes, TREs] and there is still a knock from the front! its unreal the amount of money ive spent in the past month on her, more expensive than having a girlfriend!
/rant
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Ian - 09-02-2012
Peugeot. It's french for badly made horse cart.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 09-02-2012
Clutch cable is eaaaasy
all I had to do was jack it up so I could get underneath top mounts could be the cause of the knock though
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Dan! - 09-02-2012
And people say that I am the idiot with a Volkswagen.....
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Niall - 09-02-2012
Clutch cable aint too bad once you've done one. Just need to know where to move it and what to use a crowbar on lol.
If you haven't done it by the weekend I could give ya a hand.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 09-02-2012
Crowbar O.o I didnt use a single tool... apart from a jack and axle stand
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
well i got it to the point of it being in the right hole [ooh-err] and pointing the right way, but, cant get the damn thing to reach the pedal, damn self adjusting cable
cheers niall, hopefully ill have it done by tomorrow evening, so i dont have to take four buses to get to and from work...
ill no doubt be ranting some more tomorrow!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 10-02-2012
Little tip, hook it onto the pedal first, then the gearbox, much easier that way
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
yeah thats what im trying to do, cant get enough slack. going down to gsf tomorrow to make sure they didnt give me the wrong one, which would be very rare
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - 4WayDiablo - 10-02-2012
Ecp have given me the wrong part a few times. I dont have a gsf near me though
Just persist and hopefully soon there wont be many old parts to go wrong
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
yep, the few times i've been to ecp they've given me the wrong part. thankfully, i used to live round the corner from a gsf, so when i was getting the car back on the road, changing the engine over and whatnot, i was in there twice a day for about a month! means i get trade now, first name basis yo!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 10-02-2012
I dont see how you dont have enough slack? If the other end isn't connected to the gearbox, then hooking it over the pedal should be easy enough
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
its the auto adjuster thing, we had to balance out pulling the pedal end and then the clutch end and then pull and release to get it to extend... easier to do than type out...
maybe its brokeded...
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 10-02-2012
That just sounds weird lol maybe its just too late
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
hah yep probably!
and on that bombshell...
im off to bed. tackle it more tomorrow. in whats left of the snow. funn.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - THE_Liam - 10-02-2012
Ian Wrote:Peugeot. It's french for badly made horse cart.
It's not just French cars, right now my Skoda is minus it's temp and fuel gauges and the EML comes on every week...
Skoda is Czech for "frustrating and expensive"
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
mmmm electrics.... fun fun fun!
i've just hiked to gsf, [no longer round the corner, but millions of miles away wen you dont have a car] and it turns out the cable i had didnt have a thing to stop the self adjuster from self adjusting... and then the one they had on the shelf, had one, which promptly fell apart as soon as i picked it up to look at it... made of some sort of extra mature it would seem...
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Toms306 - 10-02-2012
Only sometimes? I permanently hate mine....
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - mark_airey - 10-02-2012
Toms306 Wrote:Only sometimes? I permanently hate mine....
Tom, you permanently hate every car you own............ever! I feel that it has absolutely nothing to do with the car though!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
Toms306 Wrote:Only sometimes? I permanently hate mine....im leaning more and more towards this...
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Toms306 - 10-02-2012
Haha, bugger off Mark......I liked the 1.8!!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - mark_airey - 10-02-2012
Toms306 Wrote:Haha, bugger off Mark......I liked the 1.8!!
You didn't half do a lot of moaning about it if you liked it!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Toms306 - 10-02-2012
mark_airey Wrote:Toms306 Wrote:Haha, bugger off Mark......I liked the 1.8!!
You didn't half do a lot of moaning about it if you liked it!
Yeah it drank fuel like an alcy at a free bar.........
But it was so nice to drive...even with a stiff clutch a vacuum leak and squeaky brakes.
Seriously though, I know I moan about stuff......but I really did like that car a lot!
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Connor - 10-02-2012
Lets not turn this into a tom moaning about mpg thread... did you get it sorted then samass?
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Foxy-jim - 10-02-2012
I may kill myself if you carry on moaning haha.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 10-02-2012
haha, you can listen to me moan instead!
not go it fixed, but, i did find out i was trying to put the cable onto the wrong part of the pedal, n00b mistake i know, however, now the auto adjust mech has jammed AGAIN. so i levered the cable onto the fork, with the clutch sitting about the biting point.
ARGH.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Niall - 10-02-2012
Are you sure the plastic grommet is in the hole under the servo properly?
You can adjust the adjuster your self. It's a bit tricky but if you have a feel around of the rubber boot on the adjuster, you will feel the catch. Push it and it should open up. Then once it's all fitted roperly, give the clutch pedal a few really good hard stamps to adjust it.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 11-02-2012
yep thats deffo in properly
had a fiddle with it like you suggested, couldn't get it to do anything tho.
im gunna take it all off the car tomorrow and somehow bodge it to hold the adjuster together while i put it on and then hopefully that should sort it.
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - samass - 11-02-2012
i dont wanna go outside... its cold...
Re: sometimes i hate my car... - Niall - 11-02-2012
samass Wrote:i dont wanna go outside... its cold...
Haha get out there! I was going to go and fit my quickshift but don't have a spare gear stick to butcher.
Have you got it all clipped in place? Take it all out except for the bit under the servo and give the white clip a good tug. It seems odd because the cable can't be too short. Are you sure your clipping jt on the right bit of the pedal? I had a bit of trouble with my big hands lol