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And do you know the reason why this happens ? No....tis water that goes in to that hole when doing deep water crossings....it makes the clutch liner wet and after that when using the clutch a lot ( like on trails) the clutch becomes hot so it litterly makes the disc explode , this is why theres no ...

I don't think the drain hole on the underside is going to help much. It's only 5mm and likely very little clearance on the inside. Your best inspection point is to remove the two nuts over the slave cylinder ball-and-socket joint. All that being said, it wasn't particularly obvious that the failure ...

To close out this thread, the leak was due to a mis-installed o-ring. 90% of the o-ring was in the groove, and the other 10% was smooshed alongside the shaft. This pin can be safely removed and replaced if the transmission is in neutral. The o-ring seals the shaft, and the retaining bolt is sealed w...

At Hollister hills and clutch will no longer engage. Just before the failure it was slipping progressively more and more. Now it won't engage at all. Plenty of fluid in the reservoir. Pedal resistance feels normal. Before this we were at the top of the mountain and doing a long downhill largely wit...

I think you are missing the point, actually. More data is good, but engineers often get lost in collecting data that isn't actionable or is irrelevant. My contractor friend has a great phrase: "Solutions, not problems" In this case, after removing the slave cylinder, if the situation can't...

Even if one could look inside such a hole, I don't think it'd change the course of action no matter what is seen. If removing the slave cylinder doesn't yield improvement, the next step is transmission removal since that puts the problem in the clutch itself and access will be required to resolve th...

@rmel -- the hole I see on the underside the bell-housing is maybe 2mm diameter at most -- not sure who has that small of a borescope! Yes, of course, the slave cylinder will be inspected/pulled first. As well a complete visual inspection as much as possible, which includes things like fluid checks....

Well...a good samaritan helped me trailer it home, and I see pulling the transmission in its future. At this point, my prediction is that the disc is be more or less non-existent. As to warning, there were maybe half a dozen clutch engagements before essentially no power was getting to the transmiss...

If we find the right material, we can probably just laser cut what we need. Or, honestly, if we have the right material we can just cut it by hand with an exacto knife

We tried bleeding the clutch circuit on the trail, and it didn't help. My sense is it's hanging up internally. Maybe the slave cylinder. Waiting for my rescue vehicle to arrive with a U-Haul trailer....

At Hollister hills and clutch will no longer engage. Just before the failure it was slipping progressively more and more. Now it won't engage at all. Plenty of fluid in the reservoir. Pedal resistance feels normal. Before this we were at the top of the mountain and doing a long downhill largely with...

I don't think an o-ring is going to work well for the reasons already stated. I think it needs to be a flat squishy (low durometer) gasket.

The utilized switch is the one sold by SAV, and does require a pin removal & swap.

There I was, blissfully happy about my back-up light solution that sends power through the transmission switch to the rear of the vehicle. I even have a low-brightness for reverse gear, and a toggle-switch override for full blinding brightness. Well, today when adding a back-up camera (Garmin) the f...

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Both of mine were *BRUTAL* to get apart, but I mostly salvaged the gaskets. I keep watching SAV's site to see if they ever get stock again...