Clutch

[mr sad]

hello ther i have a 1999 1.9 dees and my clutch is just sarting to slip........................ is this a hard job to do or is this

 

easy can any one tell me please ??????????TANKS :)

[bingo nightly]

I am not up to speed with the diesel variant but I assume its little different from the petrol versions in terms of clutch replacement. Any work on a Galaxy is a pain because of the lack of room in the engine bay. Clutch replacement calls for drive shaft removal, front left strut removal/moving out of the way, engine mount, battery tray and localised bits and then removal of the gearbox.

If you are a reasonably competant home mechanic with a half decent tool kit, axle stands, jack, clutch alignment tool, and somewhere to do it then its a good weekends work, but if you are doing it outside in the rain and dark (clocks go back next weekend) with little more than a bucket of mixed spanners and a prayer then consider the option of finding a small independant garage do do it.

[Bigjeeze]

I am not up to speed with the diesel variant but I assume its little different from the petrol versions in terms of clutch replacement. Any work on a Galaxy is a pain because of the lack of room in the engine bay. Clutch replacement calls for drive shaft removal, front left strut removal/moving out of the way, engine mount, battery tray and localised bits and then removal of the gearbox.

If you are a reasonably competant home mechanic with a half decent tool kit, axle stands, jack, clutch alignment tool, and somewhere to do it then its a good weekends work, but if you are doing it outside in the rain and dark (clocks go back next weekend) with little more than a bucket of mixed spanners and a prayer then consider the option of finding a small independant garage do do it.

 

As Bingo says - not too difficult but heavy!! The Gearbox has to come out from the underneath and it's very heavy - it's at least a 4 hour job to remove and install. That said most fo the work is undoing and moving bits - the N/S bottom swivel can be undone and that gives you enough space to pull the d/shaft out of the way. Remember to change the slave cylinder while you are there .

 

 

Good luck

[kevinp72]

Just had mine done (including the Dual Mass Flywheel). Looked a bit daunting to me so I got my local garage to do it. I paid