But when your car is just sat in the garage it seems like forever.
The arrival of the primary gear/clutch oil seal tool, flywheel puller and new seal!
Not an overly simple task by any means but doable. It involves having the clutch and flywheel assembly out...
...and removing the primary gear...
When the clutch is slipping in these cars it's apparently most often caused by this little red seal pictured above. It's supposed to keep oil inside the engine and away from the clutch and flywheel assembly. If it fails (which it had on my car) it sprays the clutch and flywheel with oil and causes the loss of friction resulting in a slipping clutch. Although time consuming and requiring a few special tools (all around the £20 mark) it wasn't too difficult.
The time consuming bit is the disassembly and reassembly..
All back together again now. The clutch is still slipping but I suspect that's residual oil left on the flywheel and clutch assembly which should burn itself off after a few miles. I hope. Time will tell!
Next up.. Wheels and arches!
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