Should I Sue?

[sl33ek]

if you're sure you're in the right, threaten to take him to a tribunal

www.cttt.nsw.gov.au

but write them a letter of demand first about your problem and how you want it resolved. you can use this letter in the tribunal to prove that you tried to resolve it privately first.

you'll need receipts, and warrany records, photoes and stuff to prove your case.

I had a problem where a guy ingnored me for damaging my car until I threatened to take him there in a latter of demand. From the website, its $31 to apply but luckily i didnt have to go that far

Edited August 18, 2006 by Gengis

[ranicx]

if you're sure you're in the right, threaten to take him to a tribunal

www.cttt.nsw.gov.au

but write them a letter of demand first about your problem and how you want it resolved. you can use this letter in the tribunal to prove that you tried to resolve it privately first.

you'll need receipts, and warrany records, photoes and stuff to prove your case.

I had a problem where a guy ingnored me for damaging my car until I threatened to take him there in a latter of demand. From the website, its $31 to apply but luckily i didnt have to go that far

yeh i remeber reading about that one a little while ago. its good that you got the money for the repair.

GOOD NEWS .. ok i put the car up on car stands tonight and took the gear box out (man thats a b!tch isnt it), and found what i had hoped for! , nothing at all was broken. the fork that pushes the thrust bearing had come uncliped from the thing that holds the bearing and was stuck pushing the thrust bearing up against the clutch, casusing the clutch to slip, which also caused the fork to not return to its home posistion because it had also come dislodoged from the clip that holds it onto the pivit ball.

i think i know why this had happend too now that ive seen what has happend. a week ago i had the clutch master and slave cylinder, and all ajoining pipes and hoses, reconditioned. and the result of that was a longer throw on the slave cylinder.

this pushed the fork and the thrust bearing further than normal and the fork had slid off the thrust bearing as a result of that (i assume.. its the only thing that makes sence). im not going to even bother explaining it fully, too hard with out pictures and i couldnt be bothered crawling under the car again to take photos.

so when i put it all back together tomorrow, im going to ajust the clutch pedel so that the pick up point is lower down so that it doesnt push the fork as far anymore

now assuming that was all that was broken, and is now fixed up, ill be puting the car back together and be driving by tomorrow night :P

sorry guys, i jumped to conclusions here with assuming that the pressure plate had failed.. but everything that it was doing showed this.. sliping clutch, snaping feel on the pedel (which was just the fork sliping off). and the clutch fork staying pushed in. but thankfuly it wasnt what i thought it was.

[shif_tea]

yeh i remeber reading about that one a little while ago. its good that you got the money for the repair.

GOOD NEWS .. ok i put the car up on car stands tonight and took the gear box out (man thats a b!tch isnt it), and found what i had hoped for! , nothing at all was broken. the fork that pushes the thrust bearing had come uncliped from the thing that holds the bearing and was stuck pushing the thrust bearing up against the clutch, casusing the clutch to slip, which also caused the fork to not return to its home posistion because it had also come dislodoged from the clip that holds it onto the pivit ball.

i think i know why this had happend too now that ive seen what has happend. a week ago i had the clutch master and slave cylinder, and all ajoining pipes and hoses, reconditioned. and the result of that was a longer throw on the slave cylinder.

this pushed the fork and the thrust bearing further than normal and the fork had slid off the thrust bearing as a result of that (i assume.. its the only thing that makes sence). im not going to even bother explaining it fully, too hard with out pictures and i couldnt be bothered crawling under the car again to take photos.

so when i put it all back together tomorrow, im going to ajust the clutch pedel so that the pick up point is lower down so that it doesnt push the fork as far anymore

now assuming that was all that was broken, and is now fixed up, ill be puting the car back together and be driving by tomorrow night :D

sorry guys, i jumped to conclusions here with assuming that the pressure plate had failed.. but everything that it was doing showed this.. sliping clutch, snaping feel on the pedel (which was just the fork sliping off). and the clutch fork staying pushed in. but thankfuly it wasnt what i thought it was.

Yeah thats what i would have guessed happened ...

hahah seriously though, glad to hear it all worked out.

[ranicx]

lol, thanks caine.. im glad its back together too.. also bought the intercooler rubber tubeing today so might put the fmic on today while im at it

[mad082]

glad you go it all sorted out. i was thinking it was the pivot ball that had snapped. i had it go in mine. i had the car up on jacks to replace the front pipe and when i let it down and went to back it out of the garage the clutch felt weird. i let it up then pushed it in again then let it up. as i let it up again the pedal just shot to the floor. turned out it had snapped it off clean at the bell housing. my mechanic mate said this is usually caused by it being over tightened when installed. cost me 90 cents to fix (thanks to a mate that works at an enginnering shop) and a few hours under the car. the pivot bolt seems to be a common weakness on 33's though. i had 1 go, then a few weeks later a mate had his go, but it just snapped the head off. and the owner of the local autobarn had one snap where mine did in his 33.

[Al]

Good to hear ranicx