bliffle

I put a new clutch in the blue 83 last summer and it's worked beautifully until this week. Sometimes it drags so bad I can't engage gears and it creeps along while fully depressed. Then the drag goes away! Only to return unexpectedly later. I checked the hydraulics and all is well: plenty of fluid, etc.

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diabolical1

iTrader: (3)

i might be missing something, but i'd still say one of the cylinders is dead or dying quickly ... start with the slave.

Pedestrian X

If you replace one of the cylinders it is usually a good idea to replace the other aswell.

bliffle

Well, it's not losing fluid the way that I'm accustomed to see with a bad slave. But maybe that's the easiest: especially since I changed the slave on the 85 last week so I've got the grope and stumble program down pretty good for fishing the slave back in.

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inittab

grope and stumble

That clutch master is even worse.

bliffle

Maybe the problem is this hot weather. If there's a bubble in the fluid then the added heat could expand it just enough to make it spongy and reduce effectiveness. So I should just bleed the clutch. Now that the weather cooled the drag is gone.

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Pele

iTrader: (28)

No it isnt.

specRX7_22

thats what i was going to tell you to try first. bleed it, it can't hurt. eliminate that from the possiblities.

bliffle

Problem went away with the hot weather, so I assume it was a bubble. I'll bleed it anyway.

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