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[JamesV6CDX]

Please could someone describe to me, the exact symptoms you see, when the clutch "drags"?

[Kevin Wood]

Difficulty engaging gears, normally. Especially 1st and reverse from a standstill.

Car creeping forward slightly when in gear and clutch is fully depressed?

If pumping the pedal a couple of times cures it it could be a hydraulic problem, otherwise maladjustment or contamination of the surfaces of the clutch?

Kevin

[EddieX]

Clutch drag is when you floor the clutch peddle but the clutch does not fully disengage.
This makes gear changing difficult. If it's really bad, you can't engage first gear with the car stationary and the engine running.
Eddie.  

[EddieX]

Beat me to it!  

Eddie.

[Entwood]

From ::

http://www.nationwideautocentres.co.uk/services_clutches.asp


DRAG – Clutch cable not at correct adjustment or centre plate sticking on splines. The symptoms of this would be difficulty in obtaining gear, particularly first and reverse gears.

HTH

[Chopsdad]

I've had problems on and off for the past 3m.  At one point 1st from standstill was impossible as was reverse - the trick is to slip it into 3rd first and then select the gear.  

Oddly it's been fine for the past 6 weeks.  It happened after I flushed the coolant system but I could never see any connection - just wierd :-/

[The Cambelt Kid]

I've had problems on and off for the past 3m.  At one point 1st from standstill was impossible as was reverse - the trick is to slip it into 3rd first and then select the gear.  

Oddly it's been fine for the past 6 weeks.  It happened after I flushed the coolant system but I could never see any connection - just wierd :-/

I've experienced the same problem since dropping the coolant a few times while installing LPG in my car.  Strange!

It can be very difficult to engage gear sometimes, more so when engine is hot.

What can be done to ease gear changes?  fluid change?

[JayUK]

I've got this same problem right now. First thing in the morning, it takes some going to get the car into reverse, and then 1st when moving out of the car park.

I've recently had the clutch replaced after it was on it's way out. Apart from charging me £360 (ouch) to replace the clutch and the slave concentric doohickey, the guy did say it can take a few hundred miles to sort itself out.

Should I be getting them to check it again?

[Marks DTM Calib]

Hmmm, tough call.

It should work from day one.

Also, I have never seen a slave fail on an Omega and it baffles me as to why some change it becasue its about the same price as the rest put together.

As a test for you all......when you first start the car, put it in 3rd gear with your foot on the clutch when you crank it over....does it now go in all gears without any problems?

[JamesV6CDX]

Hmmm, tough call.

It should work from day one.

Also, I have never seen a slave fail on an Omega and it baffles me as to why some change it becasue its about the same price as the rest put together.

As a test for you all......when you first start the car, put it in 3rd gear with your foot on the clutch when you crank it over....does it now go in all gears without any problems?

Sometimes yes, sometimes no.

What does this indicate? I guess it's saying clutch is OK, and it's a possibly box/synchro issue?

[The Cambelt Kid]

Mark - Yes that worked for me too  

[JamesV6CDX]

Presume it's not a clutch issue, then?  :-/

[Marks DTM Calib]

Clutch plate is sticking......are you loosing any coolant?

By putting it in third when you crank it you effectively lock the gearbox input shaft and as the flywheel turns it frees the clutch friction plate from the flywheel and pressure plate.

[JamesV6CDX]

Clutch plate is sticking......are you loosing any coolant?

By putting it in third when you crank it you effectively lock the gearbox input shaft and as the flywheel turns it frees the clutch friction plate from the flywheel and pressure plate.

Ahhh.. learn something new everyday!

If I have lost any coolant, it will only be a few ml in the last 1000 miles, I've not had to top up.

How is this coolant relevent Mark? Are you thinking a leak at the back would contaminate the clutch? Or is it related in some other way?

[Marks DTM Calib]

I have a suspision that a coolant leak at the rear could result in coolant getting through the bell housing to block joint and onto the clutch and/or flywheel...