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TR4/4A TR4A Heavy Clutch Pedal

RJS

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Actually, it is very light as you first start to let the pedal off the floor and then suddenly gets very heavy. Unless you are extremely careful, this makes it difficult to engage/modulate from a stop. If I am not extremely careful, it will catch me off guard and I end up popping the clutch pretty hard.

As long as I can remember it has been like this and I have become use to it but, just curious if there are some easy solutions or adjustments I can make to remedy this. Perhaps if I adjust the slave cylinder? Where is clutch engagement ideally start to begin - about 1/3rd off the floor?

I have a Borg & Beck clutch installed 10 years ago with a new slave cylinder at the time. The clutch master cylinder was replaced in 2007.

Bob
 
Has the rubber flex hose to the slave cylinder been replaced?If the hose has collasped internally it can restrict the flow one way and not the other,causing the system to hang up and have a hard pedal. Inexpensive way to eliminate one possible cause.
 
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