So ordered a double lip rear seal to be on the safe side and pulled the engine today. Having never done the job before from opening the workshop door to engine out was only 40 minutes. Impressed me with how simple it was!!!
Anyway, once flywheel was removed I looked immediately at the seal. Looked fine with no oil trace. Then thought I'd check the oil pump cover 'O' ring gasket. Well the bolts holding the cover were just finger tight. I spun them off with a socket in my fingers!!!! There's the leak then.
Anyway, the clutch has always rattled when the clutch pedal is depressed from cold. Fine once pedal lifted or when engine warm.
The rivets on my clutch plates are a tiny bit loose I feel; so these need tightening.
Now I was given a full Valeo 2CV clutch kit a while back but it is different from the one I have just removed. Mine fits flush with the flywheel (which weighs 7.1 Kg or 15.6 lbs) whereas the new one doesn't!
So, what's normal? Is my flywheel standard? Reading the bits in John Nash's "It's not a Mouse but a Lion" he states the standard flywheel weighs 9.45Kg or 20.79 lbs so mine must have been lightened. Do the pictures prove that?
Also, the pressure plate has fine machined grooves on the clutch plate side. Only ever seen 'flat' ones before so a new one on me.
All information gratefully received!!!
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