Saturday malarkey....

[jimmyjam]

Saturday afternoon, out for a spin in the Junior. Pulling away from a junction I could feel the clutch go floppy on me. Spied a safe space and immediately pulled in anticipating a problem. Puddle of clutch fluid underneath with a small drip coming from what looked like the slave cylinder area. Decided against getting too far under as I was reasonably exposed positon on main road. AA came out after an hour. He spent half an hour trying to sort but to no avail so decided to stick it on his trailer in back of cab and tow to Alfacraft in Mortlake about 6 miles away. Get to Alfacraft and about to roll car off when the AA man realises he'd left one of the ramps for trailer back in Wandsworth beside road where we had come from. By the time we got back there some s had obviously picked it up for scrap. So we had to call out another relay who had a spare ramp. What a load of malarkey. Quick blast turned into a 4 hour round journey with the Junior now sitting outside garage for repair. Hopefully nothing too expensive to add to the bad weekend!.....

[OperationAlfa]

Ahh not cool mate.. what a fiasco...

[velocemitch]

oops, slave cylinder is an easy enough job shouldn't be too costly. bet the AA man got a bking!!

[jimmyjam]

Yeah, he did say he would probably be in trouble
The slave cylinder was only replaced 18mths or so ago. If I remember you gave me all the advice for my local garage to fit it last time which was a great help. I know nothing about them, would it be usual for it to go again like that after maybe 2-3000 miles?

[velocemitch]

Wouldn't have thought so, but I'm afraid a lot of these repro parts are not up to scratch. Mind you it could be the flexi hose, or even something daft like the coupling coming loose. better wait and see what the garage finds.

[jimmyjam]

Alfacraft rang me today, all sorted for £40, result! When I asked what the problem was they said the slave cylinder had been fitted upside down. Now this really annoys me because I think it was you Mitch who kindly gave me detailed advice on the fitting 18 months ago so that my local non alfa specialist garage could fit this easily and correctly.....bds!
Anyway, glad it's sorted now

[velocemitch]

Upside down??, not sure what they mean by that, it's cylindrical the only thing that might make it wrong way up would be the bleed screw. Oh well at least it's sorted.

[jimmyjam]

Yep, picked up tonight and it was the bleed screw upside down.

[RicksAlfas]

Glad it's sorted. I can't see why having it upside down would cause it to fail. It would make it hard to bleed, but why it would leak I'm not sure...

Good to see the Ti style inner lamp mesh!!
Was that from one of my ramblings?

[jimmyjam]

Yep, from your rambling on AROC I think gave me the idea. I tell you what I was cursing you half way through as I was covered in mastic sealant and a tangle of cable ties . It was a bit of a bodge but I think the end result is OK.
Cheers