Sorry its a friend's peugeot 106 I've been working on this week not a bay. Hope nobody minds the post.... The clutch bearings were shot - balls everywhere - when I replaced them and the clutch. All back together and the damn thing is squeeking in neutral with pedal up. Soon as the pedal is fractionally touched it goes. Plus gears seem harder to get. Any ideas folks?
Oh and its got oil Hypoid 90 - didn't have and 80 the manual wanted. Was thinking that shouldn't matter...
yup - sure it was cheap. garage quoted her £400 for the job. Car's not even worth that. Hence me doing it and the cheap clutch. Still should last longer than 28 seconds on the driveway? Was thinking maybe cable needs tightening but there's a sealed auto adjuster thing...
Squeeking noise in neuteral, and hard to get into gear,.................incorrect oil.............too thick. Tony
does sound like a bit of clutch adjustment is required, hold the pedal down hard see if you can get another click out of the adjuster, or drive it a little, they usually settle, but it could be the release bearings no quite mounted right, it is a standard or reverse (pull) clutch
oooh bugger. Though an easy fix perhaps ;-) Don't quite see how thicker oil would cause a neutral squeaking though?
Shame it didn't have the easy nut adjuster like on the year's before model. Clutch down hard you reckon,hmm. Guessing its a ratchet mechanism or something. Its a standard push clutch. Pretty sure the bearing was correctly seated on the fork
It does if its cold ambient temperatures, have you taken it for a drive to warm everything up? Thick oil makes a noise as it circulates in a G/B. Tony
Cheers for the help by the way all. Very much appreciated. If I can sort it I might even get the 28 quid I paid for the clutch back.... ;-)
if its a standard push clutch its less likely to be a poorly seated bearing, try pushing the clutch pedal hard and giving the cable a wiggle ( you may need an assistant ) otherwise could be the bearing drive it a bit and see
They have auto adjuster cables, though some (rare) had hydrolic. There are two cable types - did you have to replace the cable? Are you sure the cable is ok if not? The cables aren't a nightmare to change - try and get the spline on the pedal in the correct position then push the cable through rather than spend ages, donate tears and knuckle skin trying to push the pedal down and thread the cable over it - you push it on with the pedal up. I hate 106's because of the two hours I spent learning that.
Cheers very much for the advice - that might save me some time if it is the cable! it looks in decent nick - although don't know if the auto adjuster is working.
Agree regarding the adjuster - looked to me like a simple lump of metal that stopped vibration when I accidentally smashed it to bits at the side of the road
