Hi guys,
More hours spent under the car and inside the bonnet has revealed several both surprising and dissapointing things. The last owner has done an injustice to my baby! wrong grease, wrong nuts, missing bolts you name it... surprising that it runs the way it does! Well i guess it could be worse...
Anyway I was fiddling around with the clutch actuator arm thingy trying to adjust the pedal travel to realise that there is no stop nut at the bottom of the actuator arms!
The big nut labelled B is missing! So is the lock nut to the left of it!
The adjuster nut labelled A is out all the way, I found this out when i tried to unscrewed it and it dropped to the garage floor! Even though the adjuster is all the way out, when the clutch is engaged all the way (arm goes left) there is still a whopping 5mm gap between the arm and the adjuster nut!
So my questions:
1) is there any adverse effects of not having this stop nut? what are the long term effects? does it wear out any other parts because it's not there etc?
2) If i replace this stop nut and adjust it correctly according to the manual, will the arm move closer to the adjuster nut? if not what parts have worn and need replacing to get it back to the manual's clearance of just over 1mm?
Thanks!