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Car Forum / Ford / Ford Focus / June 2006

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Strange Clutch Problem

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brian@hotmail.com - 22 Jun 2006 00:39 GMT
I have 2003 ZTS that has abnormally heavy/stiff clutch pedal that occurs in temperatures above 70. The hotter
it is outside the worse it gets. The srange thing is that if you push it in and out a few times it nearly
goes back to normal then you drive it some more and bam the clutch get stiff again.

With temeratures under 60, it never exhibts this weird behavior. Hoping someone out here may have run into
this and figured out the cause.

The car only has 50,000 miles on it and this started happening last summer at 28000 miles and at the time
only in 90 + degrees. 95% of the miles are highway miles. All winter and up until it reached 70 this spring
it was normal.

thanks for any help,

b
johnwashere@gmail.com - 22 Jun 2006 18:39 GMT
My car just started doing this too and the hot weather..  Hasnt
bothered me to much yet tho.  Not to sure how to fix it :(
johnwashere@gmail.com - 22 Jun 2006 18:40 GMT
My car just started doing this too and the hot weather..  Hasnt
bothered me to much yet tho.  Not to sure how to fix it :(
brian - 22 Jun 2006 23:56 GMT
On 6/22/2006 12:40:01 PM,  wrote:
>My car just started doing this too and the hot weather..  Hasnt
>bothered me to much yet tho.  Not to sure how to fix it :(

I would be interested in knowing how many miles are on your car and if you
have had any contact with Ford and if so what they say about this.
Ian - 25 Jun 2006 14:03 GMT
I had a similar sort of problem in reverse, it got less stiff when hot. It
turned out to be the cable.
Couldn't find anything wrong with the old one though.

Ian

> I have 2003 ZTS that has abnormally heavy/stiff clutch pedal that occurs in temperatures above 70. The hotter
> it is outside the worse it gets. The srange thing is that if you push it in and out a few times it nearly
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brian - 25 Jun 2006 21:50 GMT
>> I have 2003 ZTS that has abnormally heavy/stiff clutch pedal that occurs
>in temperatures above 70. The hotter
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>Ian

Strange, my Focus has a hydraulic clutch not a cable.

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