106 Clutch difficult to operate Auto and manual gearboxes
Citroen XM Internet Reference Version 1.0 159
3/3/99
106 Clutch difficult to operate
Hi,
I’ve just bought a 92er XM 2.0 technic.
It has an exchange engine for about 6 TKM.
The clutch is very difficult to operate (german word hakelig :-)) and it’s not very easy to change gears,
e.g. I have to move around to find the correct position to fit the gear (german word rühren).
Is this normal for XMs? It’s my first XM and I think this is not normal. What can I do to make change
gears working better? Where do I have to look for the problem to identify it? (btw the clutch is very short,
the pedal has only a few centimeters until the clutch is, äh, shut. Short way to clutching. Does anyone
understand what I mean :-)?)
Bye
Arne
PS: Sorry for my cruel technical-english :-)
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Subject: RE : Clutch difficult to operate
The clutch on our 1989 XM 2.0i Technic isn’t ideal either but not too bad.
The few XM’s that I had for a test drive didn’t have clutch problems, so I would think that your cars bad
clutch is not typical.
One thing I really like about our XM is the shifting, it’s really very smooth and exact. Not unprecise at all
!!
>>Is this normal for XMs? It’s my first XM and I think this is not normal. =
I’d think you are right.
>>What can I do to make change gears working better?
There are XM’s with a cable controlled gear box, i.e. the connection from shift stick to gearbox is not
done with rods but with cables. I think I once read that the earlier version of this cable control are not too
good. But I’m not sure of this, and I don’t know to which type of XM this applies. Somebody else ?
>>Where do I have to look for the problem to identify it? (btw
>>the clutch is very short, the pedal has only a few centimeters
>>until the clutch is, =E4h, shut. Short way to clutching. Does
>>anyone understand what I mean :-)?) =
I would think that any garage should be able to adjust this.
regards
Jint Nijman
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