5.2.7 Adjustment of the clutch release drive
Whether it is a hydraulic or mechanical drive for disengaging the clutch, the designers foresee the possibility of its adjustment, because either after disassembling the transmission elements, or due to excessive wear of the clutch disc, adjustment may be necessary.
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The later the clutch starts "grabbing", the more worn out its driven disc would be (unless, of course, any disassembly and assembly work of the gearbox was carried out). The point is that the higher the clutch pedal is (when it is slowly released) when starting off the car, the more wear the clutch driven disc has. In case if you squeezed the clutch pedal, shifted into gear without any problems, started smoothly releasing the pedal and almost immediately the car started moving, then everything is in order. In case if the gears are switched on normally, but the car cannot really drive onto a small hill, the engine speed sometimes goes off scale, and the car drives at an inappropriate speed. In this case passenger compartment is filled with a caustic characteristic smell of burnt friction linings, which means that the clutch is "slipping". It is time to replace it (or it is necessary to adjust the clutch release drive). In case if the gears, on the contrary, are shifted very tightly, sometimes with a bump (if it is not a GAZ-53, of course), or do not turn on at all, the reason, again, may lie in the clutch. It simply does not turn off completely, that is, the discs do not separate and the crankshaft is practically not completely disconnected from the gearbox shaft. In this case one says that the clutch is “slipping”. Most likely, the clutch release drive is to blame, which must be adjusted as soon as possible, otherwise the gearbox may fail.
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