Fiat Ducato Clutch Pedal Sticking

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Hi Funsters,
I have a Fiat based Rapido 924F 2.8L motorhome that I recently collected from Highbridge Caravans Devon after repair of a habitation wiring fault. On my drive home the clutch pedal felt a bit odd. When I arrived home I found that the pedal was sticking down on the floor. I had to put a toe under it to start it returning. I've read related posts which refer to hydraulic problems but I can't see any leaks and this hasn't happened before. After I left it standing for an hour or so, I tried the clutch again and it returns normally, no sign of sticking. Any thoughts please?

Thanks guys.
 
Hi mine is doing the same thing. I took it to the garage last week and they bled the clutch it was OK when I left. Today I have just managed to get back home with it and pedal is going to the floor. I was stuck at some traffic lights for 10 minutes trying to get it into gear.
Garage reckons it's either the master cylinder or the slave cylinder .
Slave cylinder is a gearbox out job so I am hoping it's the master cylinder.
 
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Hi Waspes,
Thanks for your reply. The puzzling thing for me is that this began to happen on route when I was using the clutch, there was no sign of the clutch not disengaging, then half an hour afterwards the pedal returns normally. Strange?????
 
Mine is a 2004 van.I had the same problem.Managed to drive home from York just .It was the slave cylinder that was failing.Had a full clutch fitted.
 
Not Motorhome but we had same on out Seat Leon, pedal would go to floor, it was the Master cylinder, wasn't to bad a job only a couple of hours, in fact I did it twice when I found some little rubber seals in the old cylinder and couldn't get pressure up and had a leak, all working fine second, you would think they would put new rubbers in the new kit.
This modern insistence on using plastic cylinders and O rings for everything, you could put new seals in the old stuff :)

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Make sure there is free travel at the master cylinder push rod. If not the fluid can't get back into the reservoir properly. You should have a noticeable amount of play at the pedal before the push rod contacts the cylinder piston, use you hand to check.

Geoff
 
Thank you guys for all your responses, not what I wanted to hear but ...... I'm not much of an engineer so I suppose I'm just going to have to book it in and grit my teeth when the bill arrives.

Many thanks.
 
Thank you guys for all your responses, not what I wanted to hear but ...... I'm not much of an engineer so I suppose I'm just going to have to book it in and grit my teeth when the bill arrives.

Many thanks.
My previous 2007 van's clutch started to stick while I was giving the clutch a good workout over a pass in the Alps. It was snowing and I had the floor heater on max. I pulled over and was recovered the next day. The garage couldn't find an issue. I drove the van for another year (a little more carefully) before I sold it with no issues.

The best guess is that the clutch cylinder was getting hot and vapour started coming out. I was at altitude and the floor heater on right hand drive Ducatos makes it toasty. I'd had the brake fluid changed before the trip, but apparently this doesn't do much to flush the fluid on the clutch side, so old stuff remains and doesn't mix much. It's possible?
 
Sunday morning in a ducato emergency response Ducato ambulance taking me to hospital the clutch stuck downI think it was a 70 Reg, maybe 21. Anyway were stitting on a busy main road trying to get another ambulance to come and complete my journey when driver said he had managed to lift the clutch.. we got the hospital with as few gear changes as he could manage and dropped again just as he backed onto the offload bay outside A&E!
Needless to say the team were going to refuse to go out on call in that vehicle till it had been fixed.
Mercifully I got straight into A&E and was admitted 24 hrs later and discharged on Tuesday thanks to our wonderful doctors and nursing staff in a very busy NHS.
Rishi! Give them the pay they derserve!

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Hi mine is doing the same thing. I took it to the garage last week and they bled the clutch it was OK when I left. Today I have just managed to get back home with it and pedal is going to the floor. I was stuck at some traffic lights for 10 minutes trying to get it into gear.
Garage reckons it's either the master cylinder or the slave cylinder .
Slave cylinder is a gearbox out job so I am hoping it's the master cylinder.
On the 2.8 (the OP's van) slave cylinder is not gearbox out to change, it is on the X250 onwards.
Problem on theirs is most likely the master cylinder.
 

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