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On Audi 80,90,100,200,5000, etc... the clutch pedal pushes the clutch cylinder via a thin 6mm rod. This rod suffers small internal fructures, wears and breaks after 15..18 years even with the factory clutch. With a strengthened clutch this will break very fast.
- TODO: picture of the broken factory rod.
- You want to keep at least a spare strengthened (8mm should be fine) clutch-pedal to cylinder rod
- so when the rod breaks on your holiday, and you're 1000km away from your workshop with the 1500kg unmovable piece of metal, you can fix it with the help of a local repair shop in 3 hours instead of 3 days.
- If possible, replace it at home
On 2007-05-18 (Friday afternoon), in Budapest (a city with not too many audi-s), one workshop was calling the other:
- hi, we're stuck a bit here, struggling with a broken clutch-rod in an audi80
- hi, we're doing the same here (yes, they were fighting the same problem at the other location, at the very same moment. You can read about it on internet if you don't believe this happens often. Or you should see the factory rod and you'll laugh or cry)
- ...
- hint: some compressed air from here and there helped to move parts which were otherwise seemed stuck