Help needed to resolve a leaking clutch slave to metal pipe joint.
Posted: Sun Feb 09, 2025 4:51 pm
It is a long story but I bought my RS4 just after the clutch had been replaced, I think by a local non Audi specialist garage. Whoever did the clutch did not do a good job.
The slave is a plastic one and is supposedly new. The joint between the slave and the metal pipe going into it was leaking quite badly.
I stripped the underside of the car to get access to the joint and disassembled it. The clip was retaining the metal pipe firmly but the pipe moved quite a lot with the clip still in position, hence the leak.
When I got the joint apart there was just a rubber nipple fitted to the end of the metal pipe. There are no seals shown in any of the ELSAWIN service pictures and EKTA does not show any either.
After some research I found a VAG joint repair kit 1K0 798 741 which contains a rubber nipple and a small O ring.
My question is where does the rubber O ring go?
Does it go into the hole in the clutch slave first followed by the metal pipe and nipple?
Or onto the plastic retainer fixed to the pipe first then fit the nipple?
I have experimented with both and I can't get the spring clip to engage and hold the pipe firmly so the joint still leaks.
I am sure someone will have faced the same problem so any advice is welcome!
The slave is a plastic one and is supposedly new. The joint between the slave and the metal pipe going into it was leaking quite badly.
I stripped the underside of the car to get access to the joint and disassembled it. The clip was retaining the metal pipe firmly but the pipe moved quite a lot with the clip still in position, hence the leak.
When I got the joint apart there was just a rubber nipple fitted to the end of the metal pipe. There are no seals shown in any of the ELSAWIN service pictures and EKTA does not show any either.
After some research I found a VAG joint repair kit 1K0 798 741 which contains a rubber nipple and a small O ring.
My question is where does the rubber O ring go?
Does it go into the hole in the clutch slave first followed by the metal pipe and nipple?
Or onto the plastic retainer fixed to the pipe first then fit the nipple?
I have experimented with both and I can't get the spring clip to engage and hold the pipe firmly so the joint still leaks.
I am sure someone will have faced the same problem so any advice is welcome!