EssexUno
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Hi peeps
I was on my way to college today and it was hard to put into 1st gear when setting off but at a round about i just couldn't get it in; i was literally bending the gearstick in a brute force attempt but to no avail. i managed to crunch the 1st gear in and was off to college, but even with the clutch down the car was edgeing forward, NOT GOOD!.
I got to college where i'm doing motor mechanics and asked my tutors what happened as i thought it was a selector fork or the bearing that had gone.
I'd been getting some black liquid dripping on my W?HITE trainers since i've been driving my uno which is a bout 3 weeks but i didn't have a clue what it was and has stained my trainers lol. Well now i know what the liquid is, hydraulic fluid. we bleed the system at college with dot 4 brake fluid and the clutch was better than when i first drove the car so was not 100% to begin with. I think the fluid had been there since the car was made because it was completely black :yuck:.
I'm getting a new master cylinder from a motor factors in stanway tomorrow for £31 and am going to fit it either that day or friday after i get some more brake fluid which i'm hopeing isn't more than £5?
so any tips on the matter of changeing and bleeding single handedly would be helpful
i have searched the forum and read through some stuff, also can anyone reply to my thread about the 866 cam in "999cc Engine Tuning, Can you help!?"
Thanks
Dan
I was on my way to college today and it was hard to put into 1st gear when setting off but at a round about i just couldn't get it in; i was literally bending the gearstick in a brute force attempt but to no avail. i managed to crunch the 1st gear in and was off to college, but even with the clutch down the car was edgeing forward, NOT GOOD!.
I got to college where i'm doing motor mechanics and asked my tutors what happened as i thought it was a selector fork or the bearing that had gone.
I'd been getting some black liquid dripping on my W?HITE trainers since i've been driving my uno which is a bout 3 weeks but i didn't have a clue what it was and has stained my trainers lol. Well now i know what the liquid is, hydraulic fluid. we bleed the system at college with dot 4 brake fluid and the clutch was better than when i first drove the car so was not 100% to begin with. I think the fluid had been there since the car was made because it was completely black :yuck:.
I'm getting a new master cylinder from a motor factors in stanway tomorrow for £31 and am going to fit it either that day or friday after i get some more brake fluid which i'm hopeing isn't more than £5?
so any tips on the matter of changeing and bleeding single handedly would be helpful
i have searched the forum and read through some stuff, also can anyone reply to my thread about the 866 cam in "999cc Engine Tuning, Can you help!?"
Thanks
Dan