Clutch Pedal

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by rick s

Well just got the call from the dealer and it appears the clutch fork is broken.

I just realized, the hydraulic fluid oozed out after you pumped the slave piston out of the cylinder.

Once the fork broke, the only thing holding in the slave piston was the dust boot. It would be easy to eject the piston in a few pumps of the pedal.

[rick s]

Yeah, pretty much sums it up!


Talked with the service manager after the advisor said it may be a week or two to finish the repair.
The advisor also suggested that the Toyota rep would need to determine if warranty would cover the repair.


Everyone hold onto your hats!


I had the service manager say all was covered by warranty, he had the parts on order and they would be in on Monday, car put back together soon after. Not a week or two!

[rick s]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

I just realized, the hydraulic fluid oozed out after you pumped the slave piston out of the cylinder.

Once the fork broke, the only thing holding in the slave piston was the dust boot. It would be easy to eject the piston in a few pumps of the pedal.

Cliff notes version: throw out bearing bound up, no move, fork move, fork meet bearing, fork break, piston popped, fluid leaks, pedal goes to floor and no come back!

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by rick s

Yeah, pretty much sums it up!


Talked with the service manager after the advisor said it may be a week or two to finish the repair.
The advisor also suggested that the Toyota rep would need to determine if warranty would cover the repair.


Everyone hold onto your hats!


I had the service manager say all was covered by warranty, he had the parts on order and they would be in on Monday, car put back together soon after. Not a week or two!

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

[rick s]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Best wishes for a speedy recovery.

Well thanks for the wish but there is no speedy recovery in the plans!
Went to pick up the car last night after being told that they had test driven the car and it was ready. 10 seconds in the car and there is a bad sound. Clutch out low rpms and there is a "grinding" noise and vibration. A little higher rpms and the noise seemed to go away. I didn't even get it out of the dealer parking lot
Service advisor: they thought it was the license plate, heatshield against header or tire noise


Got the mechanic and took him for a ride and the noise, vibration was heard. He says they didn't know what the car sounded like originally! This was definitely not even close to a "normal" noise.
To make a long story even longer the tranny is being pulled back out today and will be torn apart to see what is up!
The saga continues!

[Ultramaroon]

Originally Posted by rick s

To make a long story even longer the tranny is being pulled back out today and will be torn apart to see what is up!
The saga continues!

Staying tuned. I'm surprised to hear that. I wonder if they didn't forget to tighten, or improperly installed something. It's a stretch, though. Not that much going on there. I hope they discover something before disassembling the transmission.

[MisterSheep]

Figured out what the problem was yet? I had the same thing happen to me when I still had my 94 300zx. Ended up having to replace my slave cylinder.

[rick s]

Originally Posted by Ultramaroon

Staying tuned. I'm surprised to hear that. I wonder if they didn't forget to tighten, or improperly installed something. It's a stretch, though. Not that much going on there. I hope they discover something before disassembling the transmission.

Well it is 5:00 PM here and have not received a call from the dealer yet. Was kinda hoping that there was an installation problem or oversight but being as the were going to pull the car apart today and I have not heard anything my pessimistic side is taking over!
Will post when I hear from the dealer.

[rick s]

The latest and greatest! The noise and vibration? Transmission. Had the Toyota engineer in, listened to the transmission and had them just pull it and order a new one. Asked what they had found and was told they didn't even open it up just said to replace it!
The list of new components:
1.slave cylinder
2. clutch fork
3. pivot pin
4. throw out bearing
5. transmission nose cone that throw out bearing rides on
6. pressure plate
7. last but not least the transmission itself.

Go to pick up the car tonight as the advisor said everything is installed and they are checking fluids and do a test drive. When I arrive the advisor says that the car isn't ready. We go into the shop and the mechanic says all the new parts have been installed but they can't get the clutch to engage! They will need to pull it apart again and see what'\s going on.
You can't make this sh*t up.
This needless to say is not giving me a warm fuzzy feeling. How can you not be able to install this stuff with the tools and knowledge that mechanics should have! This isn't brain surgery.
It's all covered under warranty but I have an uneasy feeling about the repair itself


Hopefully by tomorrow they will have it running.


Stay tuned for more!

[rick s]

Originally Posted by MisterSheep

Figured out what the problem was yet? I had the same thing happen to me when I still had my 94 300zx. Ended up having to replace my slave cylinder.

See post above!

[aegisdrgn]

Now I'm just hitting the F5 button repeatedly.

Thanks Obama!

[rick s]

Update
Dealer:
we need to put the old pressure plate back in as we determined that we ordered or received the wrong part, yet put it in the car none the less. Don't worry Rick the clutch disk and pressure plate were fine, yet we ordered a new one just because. The car should be ready by Friday PM or Saturday. Fine just get the GD car running again
Friday 6:52 PM voicemail from dealer. We still can't get the clutch to engage (what the F have you done to my car?)


We are going to order a new pressure plate but there are none in stock on the east coast so it will be Tuesday or Wednesday before the part even arrives. We are then going to take the car apart for the fourth time and if we fail as miserably as we have on the previous three attempts we will need to call in Toyota techs.


There is now absolutely zero confidence that these "TECHS" can get their collective heads out of their asses and actually put this car back together again.
Have you ever gotten so pissed off that you are at a loss for words. Well I'm there. I was going to call them tomorrow but I really don't know what to say to them.
All new parts and they can't even re-assemble the car so that it works, absolutely un effin believable

[rick s]

3 WEEKS + 1 DAY AND COUNTING





NO PROGRESS

[Cockatoo]

Lemon Law Activate!