Sticking clutch pedal

[Roa, Greg]

Try this,
Push down on the pedal with your hand after you have popped it up into the
full upright position.  Do you meet any resistance to pushing it down for
the first inch or so of travel?  On my car, I replaced the clutch master and
slave, and still had that problem.  Turns out I had/have two problems.
First, the throwout bearing in the clutch had worn out the teflon coated
sleeve it rides on, making clutch disengagement difficult.  I fixed that
while doing the clutch.
Second problem was that the clutch pedal itself had worn out.  There is a
clevis pin that goes through the clutch pedal to link the pedal to the
master cylinder.  The clevis pin has actually worn the hole it goes through
into an oval.  Wasn't but a 16th to an 8th of an inch of play at the pin,
but at the actual pedal, it shows as almost an inch of play.

To check to see if this is one of your problems, look at the clevis where
the master cylinder attaches to the pedal, and wiggle the pedal up and down.
If the pedal moves without moving the clevis, that is one of your
contributing factors.

Greg Roa
Cincinnati, OH
86' 4kcsq
93' 90 CS
83' 944


>Date: Wed, 16 May 2001 22:21:40 -0600
>From: Matt Daniels <mdaniels at ivy-rose.com>
>Organization: Audi Quattro Club USA
>To: Quattro List <quattro at audifans.com>
>Subject: Sticking clutch pedal
>
>Sorry if the list gets this twice, but I sent it earlier with a
>non-subscribed email address that has to be approved first. Anyway, here
>is my question.
>
>Since I'll be keeping my '86 4kcsq for a little while, I want to fix an
>annoying problem of my clutch pedal sticking about half way down. Its
>been this way ever since I bought the car nearly 2.5 years ago, but it
>does not effect the operation at all (at least I don't think it does!).
>
>Basically, upon stepping on the pedal, it will only come back up about
>2-3 inches (the actual clutch engagement seems to be the last 1.5 inch).
>If I stick my toe under the pedal, it will pop back up.
>
>How to I go about adjusting this to be normal? I've looked in my Bentley
>manual, but sometimes I have trouble figuring that thing out. Some "real
>world" advice would be helpful.
>
>Thanks.
>
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