QuestionQUESTION: My defender Td5 has 155000 km on the clock.My master cilinder has failed 3 times in a six month period.I have replaced both the slave and master.What causes this problem?
ANSWER: There is nothing you could "do wrong" when operating your Defender to make the clutch cylinder fail. Repeated failure suggests one of these things to me:
1) Wrong diagnosis - there is really something else wrong
2) Defective parts
3) Installation error or failure to properly bleed
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QUESTION: Can the pressure plate which is 9 years old causes this problem,springs on plate not ok anymore causing to much pressure on the seals in the master cylinder?
AnswerI suppose what you say is possible in theory but I have never seen it in practice, and I've serviced LR for over 20 years. However, here in America almost all our Rovers have auto transmission. It's possible a LR service manager in the UK would have a different take on this as standard shift is common there.
