Hi again!
did a load of nice things to the Midas on my day off. Decided to replace all of the skanky metal brakets (some of the anchor points had got a little rusty). The car will definitely go through an MOT now and everything is running on song ....well at least it was until I got home back on the drive last week.
The clutch cable snapped! Very lucky that it happened at home though. I am putting it down to just wear and tear of the cable which to be honest seems to be routed a bit strangely in the midas, the angle it bends out just after the bulk head looks too tight to me for a cable to pull nice and comfortably. Anyhow, the good news is that there is no excessive wear where it counts (as posted recently by justamin).
So I had a new cable when I got the car but it seems knackered which is a shame. Everything went swimmingly when fitting the part but when I tried to auto adjust it, the cable never got tight. The cheap and nasty plascitcky mechanism just slipped in both directions...I think its just a bad spare part, or perhaps one that was already broken given that I don't know the history of it.
Anyway, I have ordered a new one but is there a real knack to fitting these or is it as straightforward as the haynes manual suggests? The way I am looking to do it is fit it all up loose (except the pedal end) then shorten the cable on the adjuster, hook up the pedal end and then put the c-ring in place on the big spring. If I am right then it shuold be a case of depressing the pedal a few times to get rid of any remaining slack.
If I am honest I would far rather fit a manually adjusting cable as the mechanism looks so damn flimsy, has anyone seen or heard if a manual one exists?
I guess they moved away from the earlier hydraulic ones for cost (they were lovely and smooth on our old allegro at least anyway).
Thanks guys!