Re: [alfa] Spider Clutch Issue

[hagen_jason@xxxxxxxxxxx]

Sounds like you have bad hydarulic components.  Either clutch master cylinder or clutch slave cylinder.  If niether have been serviced in recent history, I would suggest replacing both.  It is cheap and you are probably due for clutch fluid anyway!

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Jason Hagen
Chicago, IL
'73 Spider
'95 164Q
> Gang:
> 
> I have a 1986 Spider with 166K miles on it.
> 
> I have a very intermittent, but unnerving problem.
> 
> Occasionally, I'll depress the clutch pedal, and it will stay down.
> 
> Immediately, I'll press down again, and it always comes up properly. 
> It's unnerving because sometimes it happens, say, when I am 
> downshifting to enter a stream of traffic. At those times I wish I was 
> wearing brown trousers. (grin)
> 
> It tends to happen only when the weather is hot, and I have been 
> driving for some time. It happens on both upshifts and downshifts. Once 
> it happens, it won't happen again for some time.
> 
> Clues?
> 
> -T
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