What, no Gears? - 8 January 2007

KGA had been my daily drive for a few months before we had our first problem. Driving home from work one night it became difficult to engage gears. Trying to drive to work the next day and there were no gears to be had.

Temporarily the Rover was brought out of retirement until the issue could be fixed, while KGA languished in the local car park, awaiting attention.

Inspection found the clutch master cylinder filled with a murky dark-brown liquid which was presumably once clutch fluid. I drained it and replenished with fresh, but depressing the clutch pedal didn't effect any movement in the slave cylinder.

A replacement master cylinder (original spec, new Girling part) came courtesy of the fast and efficient PowerTrack limited (who also supply brake parts). The Haynes manual was accurate if brief on the removal of the "brake pedal to pushrod clevis pin", which is found here:



The new cylinder came devoid of thrust rod, so this was removed from the old one and the new cylinder fitted:



Filled with fluid and with some hearty bleeding, the new cylinder worked perfectly. KGA was back on the road in time for work on Monday.