Slave Cylinder Question / Problem TVR 2500

[JeffT]

I am having trouble bleeding the slave cylinder on my TVR 2500. It has the TR6 Gearbox and Slave cylinder.

After I bleed the air out of the line and shut the bleed valve. I pump the clutch pedel to ingage the clutch and it blows the rubber stopper off of the back of the cylinder, spilling fliud all over the ground.

What's wrong or what am I doing wrong?

Thanks,-Jeff

[brittanytvr]

Hi,
remove the pushrod pin from the lever and turn the shaft to enter in contact with the clutch.If it is too far than the slave could do, it could be a broken pin on the cross shaft (even if uprated) or damaged clutch.
I hope it is not that!!
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Edit parts 16 for the pin

Edited by brittanytvr on Wednesday 1st June 18:19

[JeffT]

I took the transmission out to inspect that pin. Not the problem. Then I unbolted the clutch and pressure plate. I noticed that the wasn't much tension on the bolts that hold the clutch in place. They were tight but there usually is some resistence as the pressure plate is pushing back on the clutch housing.

Could be one of two things: I may have bolted the cluch back in the wrong position last time.

... or I towed the car over to an exhaust shop without the clutch being bleed. In order to get the car on the lift he instructed me to put the car in 1st gear and turn the ingnition key. The car didn't start but It did fire enough to move it onto the lift. Maybe the pressure plate got hung up and caused the problem.

The transmission is back in the car but I haven't bleed the clutch yet. I'll report back later.

Thanks,-Jeff

[Hans Nieuwendijk]

Hello,

As an Triumph owner by 14 year, restored and still own TR 250 with your type of 6 cilinder, I think the slave cylinder can be mounted for or after the gearbox flange.
Try to mount the cilinder in front of the flange, which makes the width to the fork shorter, so piston cannot come out of cilinder.

Hans

[matchless_mike]

It sounds like you may have the same issue that I had when fitting a new slave cylinder.

I had a similar issue with the rubber boot and piston coming out the slave cylinder body. The cause was that I had mounted the slave cylinder on the gear box side of the mounting plate. It should be on the engine side. However even when this was done I found that the travel of the push rod was still a bit too far and I added spacers to moved the slave body even further back in the direction of the engine. The standard push rod should fit in the middle position on the lever arm although a longer or shorter rod will affect this position.

The problem is quite common on the TR6 although easy to fix............after you had a couple of embarrassing breakdowns. I have seen one car where the owner had made a bracket to go over the end of the cylinder to stop the piston coming out.

[JeffT]

You are right. Slave in wrong position. Mounted it accourding to the pistures in the manual and all is well. Thanks for the replies.

-Jeff