Yesterday when doing a 50 mile journey noticed the clutch pedal was feeling slightly strange on some of the gear changes, i.e. slower to return to normal position.
On my return journey I had the pedal hitting the floor and I had to pull it back up with my foot. Sometimes it was operating ok and other times I had to pull it back up. Managed to get home after being stuck in a lot of stop start traffic through Towcester. The last 5+ miles of the journey clutch was as normal. From stuff I have read I am assuming this is an issue with one of the clutch cylinders. The car is 1.4 TSI, 63 plate, just done 33k miles.
I have read things saying all MK3 Leon slave cylinders are concentric and inside the gearbox, so a gearbox off job to replace. However when I have looked this part up for mine it doesn't appear to be a concentric type and when looking in the engine bay I am pretty sure I can see it bolted to the outside of the bell housing (no fluid leaks around it at all and I've checked fluid level in reservoir and its not low). I am guessing this could mean a master cylinder problem?
Does anyone have any experience or advice on changing the slave or master cylinders on these? Is the slave cylinder as straight forward to change on the 1.4 TSI as it appears? i.e. 2 x bolts? If its the master cylinder can anyone suggest where to source this from?
Any help or advice greatly appreciated,
On my return journey I had the pedal hitting the floor and I had to pull it back up with my foot. Sometimes it was operating ok and other times I had to pull it back up. Managed to get home after being stuck in a lot of stop start traffic through Towcester. The last 5+ miles of the journey clutch was as normal. From stuff I have read I am assuming this is an issue with one of the clutch cylinders. The car is 1.4 TSI, 63 plate, just done 33k miles.
I have read things saying all MK3 Leon slave cylinders are concentric and inside the gearbox, so a gearbox off job to replace. However when I have looked this part up for mine it doesn't appear to be a concentric type and when looking in the engine bay I am pretty sure I can see it bolted to the outside of the bell housing (no fluid leaks around it at all and I've checked fluid level in reservoir and its not low). I am guessing this could mean a master cylinder problem?
Does anyone have any experience or advice on changing the slave or master cylinders on these? Is the slave cylinder as straight forward to change on the 1.4 TSI as it appears? i.e. 2 x bolts? If its the master cylinder can anyone suggest where to source this from?
Any help or advice greatly appreciated,