Clicking / Crunching when pressing clutch

[AlpineWhite]

Yep those retaining clips are a real pain! Oh-so-simple when you've got em figured out, but until that point.....

Didn't have any problems with the nuts at the bottom of the steering column, apart from dropping one into the rack! Took five minutes to get it out!

 

[Fl@pper]

those retaining clips on the pedals as well...OMG!! lol got it off eventually though and then got hit in the head by the clutch spring lol

just break em off and use a new one that's what i did

bear in mind there's a change on chassis number though

 

[truCido]

and the drive shafts nuts are now rounded dont know how to get them off now

 

[truCido]

well got one off by hammering a 1/2 socket on it, but I did the same on the other and it again just rounded!! cant find my 12mm socket to hammer on

 

[truCido]

Yep those retaining clips are a real pain! Oh-so-simple when you've got em figured out, but until that point.....

Didn't have any problems with the nuts at the bottom of the steering column, apart from dropping one into the rack! Took five minutes to get it out!

Just reading your thread mate and you talk about removing the shear bolts...which ones are they?

I'm just trying to remove everything else whilst waiting for someone to come round with something to get this nut off

 

[AlpineWhite]

There's two of them, going up into the top of the dash, one on either side of the steering column. They're what holds the steering column up. The head is sheared off when the bolt is tight, leaving only a 'button', like in the left hand side of this picture:

They're not easy to get out, I resorted to demolishing the heads with a dremel. Then the steering column could be dropped down, exposing the thread and they could be undone.

 

[truCido]

ahhhh great, more fun!

 

[AlpineWhite]

And to add to the fun, on the left one, I couldn't get the dremel in facing the normal way, so it had to put it in backwards with the disc facing me!

Enjoy

 

[truCido]

lovely!!

 

[AlpineWhite]

Snap!

 

[EnGbudd]

Damn not quite the same :/

 

[truCido]

if you left it longer it would be!

 

[F2 Stu]

Had the same thing happed on the Cordoba, rather than spending hours removing & reffiting the pedal box I spent all of 10 minutes on iit welding the crack up in situe

 

[Cupra Kid]

Had the same thing happed on the Cordoba, rather than spending hours removing & reffiting the pedal box I spent all of 10 minutes on iit welding the crack up in situe

Best idea, unfortunately i don't have to tools or the knowledge to weld

 

[CraigW]

Had the same thing happed on the Cordoba, rather than spending hours removing & reffiting the pedal box I spent all of 10 minutes on iit welding the crack up in situe

That is actually a good idea.

Best idea, unfortunately i don't have to tools or the knowledge to weld

Yep I agree, that probably is the best idea. Like you though, I dont have the tools. I have the knowledge as I did it as part of my apprenticeship.

 

[Dolly_Gti]

my made a right crack when i jumped in it today, and mates lupo did it a few weeks ago, i really really must check it this weekend.

 

[truCido]

its been welded up before and its gone again. I'm removing it because I want it welded properly on both sides so its not coming apart again!

 

[truCido]

tell you what getting in there with the dremmel isnt easy!! nearly got one off lol

 

[truCido]

does anyone know with the shear bolts if there is a washer on them?? As I've got rid of most of the bit like the pic above that alpinewhite attached, but theres a bit behind it like a big metal washer that looks like its part of it?

 

[truCido]

here we go! you can see the metal bit that surrounds the like button head, from the pic it looks like a washer but as I've dremelled the button bit off it seems to be part of the bolt?