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Offline billlikecar

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Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« on: June 10, 2011, 04:45:54 am »
i do not know where check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
any body ideas???/
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #1 on: June 10, 2011, 09:27:32 am »
It's supplied from the brake fluid resevoir.
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #2 on: June 10, 2011, 09:31:56 am »

So Brake & gear oil is shared?

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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #3 on: June 10, 2011, 11:04:30 am »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on June 10, 2011, 09:31:56 am

So Brake & gear oil is shared?

Thank you

No clutch and brake fluid is shared. Gearbox oil is separate.
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #4 on: June 10, 2011, 11:06:44 am »
Aaaaah, thank you.

Didnt make sense when I thouht about it with brake fluid being topped up from the bulkhead resevoir and gear oil at the box.

Clutch oil is only? Dsg then
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #5 on: June 10, 2011, 01:29:17 pm »
No the clutch fluid being referred to is the hydraulic fluid used to actuate the clutch mechanism, this fluid is shared with the brake fluid Mike :happy2:
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #6 on: June 10, 2011, 02:02:09 pm »
Quote from: gazbutS3 on June 10, 2011, 01:29:17 pm
No the clutch fluid being referred to is the hydraulic fluid used to actuate the clutch mechanism, this fluid is shared with the brake fluid Mike :happy2:

Makes perfect sense, having a mong morning  :ashamed:  Wheere abouts on the gearbox could this fluid potentially leak from?

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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #7 on: June 10, 2011, 02:06:31 pm »
Quote from: Tfsi_Mike on June 10, 2011, 02:02:09 pm
Quote from: gazbutS3 on June 10, 2011, 01:29:17 pm
No the clutch fluid being referred to is the hydraulic fluid used to actuate the clutch mechanism, this fluid is shared with the brake fluid Mike :happy2:

Makes perfect sense, having a mong morning  :ashamed:  Wheere abouts on the gearbox could this fluid potentially leak from?

Thanks again

Clutch master cylinder is a possibility
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #8 on: June 10, 2011, 02:08:50 pm »
there is a connector at the gearbox where the pressure line joins the actuator/slave cylinder, I had a slight leak here that only became apparant on track days etc when the fluid got hotter, we changed the O ring and now its fine, saying that I haven't done a track day since  :laugh:
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #9 on: June 10, 2011, 02:14:31 pm »

If my brake fluid is low will certainly be investigating said places.  If not could be driveshaft oil seals again  :sad1:
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #10 on: June 10, 2011, 02:16:00 pm »
Driveshaft oil seals are for gearbox oil mike and not the clutch hydraulic fluid  :happy2:
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #11 on: June 10, 2011, 02:18:02 pm »
Quote from: alexperkins on June 10, 2011, 02:16:00 pm
Driveshaft oil seals are for gearbox oil mike and not the clutch hydraulic fluid  :happy2:

I know.  One has gone before  There's oil drops on bottom of my box and along my ARB.  Need a day off work to have a good look :(
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #12 on: June 10, 2011, 02:22:54 pm »
If its oil its likely to be gearbox. Brake fluid is more like water rather than oil and doesnt tend to stick to things like oil does
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #13 on: June 24, 2011, 12:47:05 pm »
wow cool and thanks for sharing ideas :signLOL:
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Re: Where do you check Clutch fluid on my Golf GTI?
« Reply #14 on: June 27, 2011, 08:11:29 pm »
Don't mean to go off topic here but has anyone changed their manual gearbox oil?
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