Clutch pedal mechanism

I would call up a heavy duty truck transmission shop and ask them.

Techs at Stealerships are just part changers, you need talk to someone that specializes in transmissions and clutches.

Is it a hydraulic or mechanical clutch?

 

On my 96 there are 2 greaseable pivots. One where the linkage comes out of the cab and one at the back of the transmission mounted on the frame. Many people forget to grease them.

 

Wow.......this is a bold statement and clearly far from the truth. Some of the most knowledgable and smartest quys in the biz work for dealers. Clearly you have had bad experiences with certain dealers which is too bad. Not really fair of you to generalize in that way though.

 

Yep, I sure have had bad experiences, like the Volvo Tech in Fontana that changed my cab airbags and jacked the cab up from the back cab wall thinking the cab wall sheetmetal edge would support a 2000k+ cab. He should've instead used the cross member of the cab floor with a piece of wood to jack up the cab.

When I showed the shop foreman the buckled sheetmetal damage, he went and had the Tech that worked on it come over to look at it and he denied ever jacking the cab up to change out the airbag.

The Tech said he didn't need to jack the cab up to unscrew the airbag. I guess with his superhuman strength, he just unscrewed it by hand with the weight of the cab supporting it.

The irony of the whole thing was I took pictures of the back of the cab before I had the work done to prove their was no damage beforehand, also there was a greasy outline of the bottle jack that they used on the frame rail.

How about the time a few years ago when Volvo had a recall on the TRW drag link for VNL 2001-2003, I brought it to TEC of Fontana and it was taking a abnormally long time to install the part because the Tech stated the zerk fitting was rubbing on the spring frame support when the steering wheel was turned.

When I picked it up I noticed the Tech installed the drag link in the wrong direction, basically backwards.

When I showed the shop foreman he was surprised it was installed backwards because he stated the Tech that changed numerous ones in the past.

That's why most Techs are part changers, and that's why I invested in my own tools so I can do most of the work myself and know that it's done right.

 

Today I asked another driver I know about this problem of yours since I knew he had done one before. Unfortunately he couldn’t remember exactly how he done it 15 years ago but did remember it was a royal pain in the ### and didn’t want anything to do with that job again.

 

Hey- just thinking out loud here... before you knock yourself out changing that assembly under the dash- unhook the clutch linkage from the pedal and see if the pedal moves freely on its own. There should be a pivot bolt in the engine compartment just in front of the clutch pedal. It would have to bind really hard to hold the clutch down. I’m thinking more that the clutch fork is tipping too far and sticking. A damaged fork would cause this. I would probably unhook the linkage first, see if the pedal moves smoothly- if it does get someone to step on the clutch while you lay under the truck and watch the fork and throw out bearing. Maybe your answer down there.