Hydraulic Throw out bearing

[Naumoff]

Originally Posted by olddog

My Cobra (that I just purchased) has a HTOB in it - about 2500 miles on it. Now you all have me a little worried about it. Thanks.

Now I have to ask, are the slave cylinders having O-ring failures as well? I know they are much easier to change. What I am trying to figure out is if the failures are related to a change in the rubber chemicals that the O-rings are made of.

We had a bunch of rubber coated roller failures at work about a couple years back and traced it to a chemical change in the rubber compounds. Fuzzily I seem to remember the tree huggers stopped production of some chemical that was used. They have since improved the rubber to a tollerable level, but still not as good as it was.

Everything fails but the slave is much easier to work on. That is obvious.
I don't mind pulling my trans right now. So when I have a failure I will probably just change the o-rings. Take me about three hours to pull the trans and re-install and that is with the car on jack stands.

Damn tree huggers! Go live in a cave and leave us alone.

Don't worry about it until it happens. if it ain't broke don't fix it.