no clutch help please
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hi ive just bought my first mini on Monday and i'm just having some teething problems and today i put my foot on the clutch and it felt really spongy and i cant get into any gears unless i slam it in and it make a horrible noise.

any suggestions

someone said it could just need bleeding if so how hard is it and also whats made it spongy has a seal gone or something again if so what and where

many thanks danny

Just a punt but your clutch line isn't braided is it?

could be the clutch salve cylinder. get someone to push the clutch pedal and see if the arm on the wok moves .

If its the pre-verto long clutch arm it might need some adjustment, covered in the Haynes manual. If your not sure what type of clutch you have have a search for verto and pre-verto should show some images.

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where are you from minichipper?

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Most likely a Verto clutch for that age car.
Check your fluid levels and check the slave cylinder isn't leaking.
Using braided hose? If not, check that the hose hasn't perished/is bulging?

If all seems well, bleed the clutch. 2 people, one operating the pedal, one operating the nipple. You just have to twist the nipple until fluid starts to come out.

Sounds like it needs bleeding.

We bled it which improved it a lot. Still not perfect however.

Reservoir was full though so we think air is getting in somewhere. We're going to fit a braided pipe and new slave on Thursday so we'll see how it goes.
It's verto by the way.

make sure you get a genuine cylinder, we had no end of trouble bleeding the pattern one on our van

Go for the one piece braided hose. With this you can hold the slave above the master to get all the air out.

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