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o4dn

Member Since: 08 Jan 2010
Location: South West
Posts: 538

2009 Defender 90 Puma 2.4 SW Alaska White

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That plastic insert in the pedal circled in yellow is a favourite spot as the insert can wear or breakdown. The spring coils themselves can also creak and groan too. There is a knack to removing the spring for a check over, it's more fiddly than difficult.

WD40 is more of a water repellent than a lubricant, if what you are using hasn't worked then try something else like a spray white grease but only use it sparingly inside the pedal box itself and keep the stuff away from the master cylinder!

If I were you I'd give the pushrod and rubber dust boot a thorough wipe over, the danger with using lubricant in that area is that some might get drawn into the cylinder bore which won't do the piston seals any favours.

+1

My clutch pedal has been squeaky for years!.. until last week.

Over the years, I tried pouring pretty much everything I could to make it smooth and silent again, until I found out that plastic clip was gone on mine (I then remembered finding bits of plastic on my footwell a few years ago...).

I ordered the part (CLP3180), took me a couple of hours to replace, greased everything (including the coil spring) with Teflon grease compatible with plastic parts which wouldn't damage the plastic or rubber seals) and also, while at it, readjusted the biting point for the clutch to be higher, so that de-clutching would happen sooner.

As a result, the clutch is now completely silent, feels very smooth and the adjustment also improved gear change, feels as good as (or better) than new...

Admittedly, putting the coil spring back in place was a real pain! “A Land Rover immobilized is a moral defeat for the driver and bad publicity for the vehicle, […] it's up to you to do justice to your Land Rover!” - Land Rover Driving Technique.
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2009 2.4 Puma Defender 90 SW
1979 Land Rover Series 3 88"

31st Mar 2016 12:14pm

Stacey007

Member Since: 25 Sep 2015
Location: Cheshire
Posts: 3748

OK,

One last try on Friday, I really hate the noise it make (wife and kids think its fine) but me... nope have to sort it.

So Greased the pedal spring everywhere I could head under dash, screw driver opening the spring a little as I pushed the clutch down with hand and spread grease over it. I needed 3 hands but the annoyance that is this squeak I managed..

Then head under engine in clutch box again !! more grease (cough cough a few squirts...)

Result......

Its oooh sooo quite

Lets see how long this lasts !!!

4th Apr 2016 3:11pm

Fabio

Member Since: 05 Aug 2011
Location: Somerset
Posts: 589

2011 Defender 110 Puma 2.4 XS CSW Santorini Black

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8th Feb 2017 4:56pm

justinp

Member Since: 24 Jun 2016
Location: Cambridge
Posts: 167

What an excellent forum this is

I just spayed some WD40 on my clutch pedal spring and under the plate held by 6 screws on the master cylinder and my pedal is smooth and quiet again

I've no doubt that the benefit of WD40 will be short lived so I'll get some spray grease in ready for next time. Now gone - 2012 2.2 110 DC XS

30th Mar 2017 8:10pm

L110CDL

Member Since: 31 Oct 2015
Location: Devon
Posts: 10741

Scotm wrote:
I sprayed mine with lithium grease from the inside and this worked a treat.

This has always worked for me on my clutch and my accelerator pedal

1996 Golf Blue 300Tdi 110 Pick up.

Keeper.

Clayton.

30th Mar 2017 8:28pm

El Rey

Member Since: 25 Aug 2015
Location: Gunbarrel Highway
Posts: 60

Happyoldgit wrote:

WD40 is more of a water repellent than a lubricant, if what you are using hasn't worked then try something else like a spray white grease but only use it sparingly inside the pedal box itself and keep the stuff away from the master cylinder!

If I were you I'd give the pushrod and rubber dust boot a thorough wipe over, the danger with using lubricant in that area is that some might get drawn into the cylinder bore which won't do the piston seals any favours.

If I understand you correctly - what about the folk who put in a grease nipple and fill up the box with grease? Wouldn't that inundate the whole thing with lubricant?

28th Feb 2018 3:40am

agentmulder

Member Since: 16 Apr 2016
Location: Outer Space
Posts: 1324

The grease gobs drop down on to your foot before it goes up that far

Solved the bowel problem, working on the consonants...

28th Feb 2018 6:16am

Rosco

Member Since: 03 Dec 2010
Location: Burntwood
Posts: 1833

2015 Defender 110 Puma 2.2 XS CSW Montalcino Red

Scott, did your squeak come back? I need to sort mine as its been doing it for months

2007 - Stornoway Grey 90 XS SW - Gone
2002 - Black Discovery II - Gone
2014 - Montalcino Red 110 XS SW

28th Feb 2018 8:28am

El Rey

Member Since: 25 Aug 2015
Location: Gunbarrel Highway
Posts: 60

agentmulder wrote:
The grease gobs drop down on to your foot before it goes up that far

Wonderful! But to follow on, doesn't that mean installing a nipple and pumping in grease is not much good, since the grease won't get up onto some of the mechanism?

28th Feb 2018 11:57am

El Rey

Member Since: 25 Aug 2015
Location: Gunbarrel Highway
Posts: 60

Took the cover off the box in the engine bay.

Warning to anybody else out there - in my MY2015 110 the gasket made it bloody hard to prise the cover off. For a little while I thought it wasn't going to come away. I ended up having to put some needle nose pliers down one screw hole and lever it up. Then I was worried I was going to tear the gasket as it slowly came away because it was stuck down so firmly.

And a magnetized screwdriver is your friend when you're putting the screws back in. It's a fiddly space and there's a fair risk of one or more screws disappearing into the engine bay (and hopefully down onto the ground).

Anyway long story short, that's not the source of my squeaks. I lubed it all up and the squeak is still there and still definitely coming from somewhere very close to the clutch pedal.

Will take the insulation cover off inside the cabin next and give the spring a go.

1st Mar 2018 10:17am

nosnibod

Member Since: 15 Aug 2007
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 370

1998 Defender 110 300 Tdi SW Bronze Green

I've tried everything everyone here has suggested. None of it worked.

However what did work was greasing the main pedal pivot - and no it doesn't mean taking everything apart.

If you feel down the inside of the pedal box - from inside the engine bay, you will feel the end of the shaft that the pedal rotates on. It's hollow, and seems to have grease ports inside it out to the bearing surface.

The end of that shaft is in fact threaded for a grease nipple but LR - in their wisdom - just bung some sealant in there instead.

If you prise the sealant out, put a grease nipple in, you can inject grease into the pedal pivot.

It's been covered on here before:-

http://www.defender2.net/forum/post469048.html

And here for more photos:-

http://www.4x4community.co.za/forum/showth...utch-pedal Dave
Green Goddess - 1998 Defender 110 300tdi

1st Mar 2018 11:34am

El Rey

Member Since: 25 Aug 2015
Location: Gunbarrel Highway
Posts: 60

Now I finally get it. I thought the nipple would direct the grease into the box - but it's into the shaft.

Cheers for the update. Do you have any notions how to remove the silicon from the thread so the nipple can screw in - without taking the whole assembly out?

1st Mar 2018 12:08pm

nosnibod

Member Since: 15 Aug 2007
Location: West Midlands
Posts: 370

There wasn't that much sealant in there - in my case a fingernail extracted it easily. Dave
Green Goddess - 1998 Defender 110 300tdi

1st Mar 2018 12:19pm

El Rey

Member Since: 25 Aug 2015
Location: Gunbarrel Highway
Posts: 60

Cheers - will give this a crack once I have a nipple.

1st Mar 2018 12:24pm

Lem

Member Since: 17 Jul 2016
Location: Brisbane
Posts: 3

2013 Defender 90 Puma 2.2 SW Indus Silver

Great forum!

If you don’t want to wait for the grease nipple, you can try this.......I had the silicon sealant plugging up that hole so I poked a small skewer into the middle. It created a hole big enough to insert a plastic nozzle from the lithium grease spray can. The can was upside down but still managed to get a few bursts directly inside.
The squeak took a few days of driving but it slowly disappeared.

I tried all this after replacing the clutch pedal spring and bushes (that was a real pain), but it did not solve the issue, I was convinced that the noise was coming from the spring. I also tried rubber grease etc etc. I was ready to go the grease nipple and thought I’d give the lithium spray a go.

Hope you get it sorted.

5th Mar 2018 12:21pm

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