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Nope, wasn't me! The 147 hasn't been back from cowley yet, will test on its return on Saturday

its personal taste but remember you can get heated leather seats which negate the coldness in winter and air con does well to combat summer heat although i agree the first few minutes on a leather seat thats been in the sun all day is not good!

Well that worked but only for a day, surely i shouldn't have to do that every morning? You shouldn't but that has proved that the clutch sensor is either dirty/faulty or the clutch itself has worn out/damaged release bearing. What's your location? I'm out and about tomorrow and if ocal enough then I could pop by and take a look. I will be in Banbury but the Mrs may leave it at her work in Cowley overnight (she uses her work van quite alot to save on the petrol commute, If you are near Banbury i'll get her to bring it home. i have plenty of spare sensors, how do you test for a dirty one? they are sealed i think from memory?

Well that worked but only for a day, surely i shouldn't have to do that every morning?

Toying with the idea of swapping the petrol 147 for a diesel one, looking at Wiki there are 6 different diesel engines putting out from 100 -170ps 2 being 8v and the others being M-jets. How do you tell which engine is in which 147s? is it age related or model related, does anyone know? obviously we want the most powerful but can only afford a pre face lift

what are the symptoms of a worn upper wishbone?

thanks Smaky, you're a legend

Well something's wrong. the clutch was really sharp this morning, letting it out to quick and pulling it back in, was kangarooing up the road, only does it for the first 2 minutes or so but if you've parked up its really difficult to manouvre gently out of a space. i checked the clutch rod length and ran all the calibration routines after changing the accumulator yesterday, i am out of ideas

goodo, It is selecting gears ok so i guess time will tell if the issue returns, something that was different this time though was that the clutch bite was very jerky for the first few stop-start manoeuvres but has now settled down. i have the clutch rod adjusted correctly so does it learn the bite piont on the first running after having the battery disconnected for a while?

I have fitted a new actuator today and its all back together ready for me to bleed, now when i took the old actuator off, it spat out some oil and then loads of air, so i obviously hadn't bled it properly. i ran the clutch bleed routine, EOL routine and actuator base adjustment. i notice the mention of an oil bleed screw which i have found but the system is fully pressurized and unscrewing it quite far does not cause any hissing or oil leaking. obviously i'm scared to undo it too far in case it fires off and twats me in the face! does it need unscrewing and how far do i go?

Alright Scott?! hows tricks? I heard about the little bastard vandals on your GTA , hope you get it all sorted ok fella! Welcome to AD

Hello Vantastic! Make yourself at home

are they all the same across the ranges? if i buy one from a 166 will it fit my 147? looks the same but you never know until you ask

those are behind the big circlips then i guess, i didn't remove them for fear of breaking some sort of factory seal but will do it tomorrow, what should i look for to check their condition? is it like any other kind of piston, scoring etc? thanks for your help Smaky:bowdown:

That drop wouldmean a reprime every 90 - 100 seconds, that is a bit too frequent, it MAY not be the accumulator but a dodgy seal on one of the EV valves or the clutch piston, but this will require a bay service of the actuator whats a bay service? if its just replacing an O ring then i can do that myself? once the solenoids and other removable parts are stripped off the actuator, is there anything else inside that can fail or need renewing. i have stripped the old actuator and all the O rings look ok.

It does one gear change ok and then primes on the next. With no changes the pressure drops by about 1BAR every 10 seconds.

pump prime frequency is still the same with my spare accumulator on.. but it was second hand so could duff too i guess.

If I'm not back in an hour it's because I'm doing radiator replacement and low speed breather change guides and just getting the pics. Ok, well that worked! battery is weak now though after all my testing charger is on t whilst i put the battery tray back in. So.. the pump is ok, i accept that the accumulator needs replacing as it primes so often but would this cause the original issue too?

i got that but the internals can go in either way (if you remove the gears) and i can't remember how they were when i took it apart! i got it back together before and it was pumping but had only 7BAR pressure so have turned them around and refitting now

ok, .....urrr now tell me how it goes back together when you say seal are you talking about the O rings on the solenoids? Are these marks normal even if they have distinct depth to them and are only on one side of the housing?

so the mrs brought the 147 home last night so today i've been fidling. the pump primes and pressurises fine but i noticed the pressure slowly decreasing so i suspect it may be the pump. it also tops up the system after every gear change. so i thought i'd rip the pump out and see if i could spot anything obvious... you should be able to see in the pic below that there is some wear inside the pump so i guess this confirms the issue. although i don't understand why the problem is intermittent

first thing i would do would be to adjust the clutch rod. it should be between 28.0 and 28.5 so yours is a tad over, also i think i read somewhere that it is better off being closer to 28.0 than 28.5