The reason why the clutch bite point is very low is diagnosed.

The rod that the clutch pedal pushes the master cylinder piston in with has a plastic eye on the upper end which fits onto a lug protuding from the clutch pedal. This has slipped sideways off the lug. The pedal still pushes it because the lug fouls the plastic and still pushes it down but not properly, allowing the clutch to still operate.

It looks as though the eye which slips over the lug was held on with a pin. There is no pin. If the eye is manually pushed onto the lug all is OK, but I guess it will slip off again.

The clutch centre want £50 for a master cylinder, and £144-ish all-in to replace the cylinder.

Is there a clip on the new master which could be used for a simple repair, or some other way I can avoid this huge bill (I will pay the clutch centre if they can do it) ?

Is the pin all that's missing, or has the loss of the pin caused something else to require the entire cylinder to be replaced? If it's just missing, surely a suitable split pin could be found to replace it and make the mechanism work again?

The lug, 6-8mm diameter, pokes out of the clutch pedal's shaft at 90 degrees, and the eye of the push rod slipsover it. It looks as though there's a groove around the end of the it for a circlip or something.

I will try and find a picture on the net....

http://bit.ly/2uDnouw shows the master cylinder, I think, the "hoop" dos not seem to be there any more, if it ever was, there's just a plain eye =====O like that nice ASCII art.

Ah OK so it's physically broken then, that's a shame. £145 sounds reasonable as it's likely to be a few hours labour to change the part out.

Argh! Can't the new cylinder's push rod be used, making the operation a lot quicker (therefore cheaper) ? Perhaps it does not come out of the master cylinder, but the one fitted does look as though it does.

OK. I'd like to edit the title of this, but can't see how.

I think I have at least somewhat wasted the money paid for the repair.

The function of the hoopy thing seems merely to be to press up against the metal of the box that houses the pedals etc., and hold the end of the master cylinder rod on the lug.

So, I could have made a cone-shaped piece of plastic with a slot in the bottom of the cone, and slid that over the end of the lug, cone point rubbing on housing as hoopy thing does, and held it there with a dob of "Araldite".

Still, the hole in the old component was somewhat elongated. Oh well.

Zog said:

OK. I'd like to edit the title of this, but can't see how.

I think I have at least somewhat wasted the money paid for the repair.

The function of the hoopy thing seems merely to be to press up against the metal of the box that houses the pedals etc., and hold the end of the master cylinder rod on the lug.

So, I could have made a cone-shaped piece of plastic with a slot in the bottom of the cone, and slid that over the end of the lug, cone point rubbing on housing as hoopy thing does, and held it there with a dob of "Araldite".

Still, the hole in the old component was somewhat elongated. Oh well.

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That's a right pain.
Thank you for posting what happened to you , hopefully will help others in future.