V-SMART June 2018

AUTO RE

The Valeo Service UK

This month our Valeo TechCare and Quality Engineer, Steve Degville, guides you through a replacement clutch on a Peugeot 207 Sport fitted with a 1.4 four cylinder petrol engine

The little sports hatchback is jam packed with fun and the original 207 model launched in 2006. The Peugeot 207 was the successor to the 206 and was very similar in principle to the platform used for the Citroen C3. The 207 Sport was an ‘Urban’ hatchback and whilst it had nothing special on the ‘in car entertainment front’ it was successful in achieving an impressive reliable engine. Before the TechCare engineer made it to the garage premises, the customer had reported that gear change had become difficult and vibration was being felt through the pedal. Upon arrival to the garage premises, the TechCare engineer took the vehicle out for a test drive so he could understand the issues being encountered by the customer. After a little diagnosis a clutch replacement was advised and authorised by the customer.

With the vehicle still on the floor, disconnect the gear selector cables/linkage from the gearbox and slacken off the gearbox mounting. Raise the vehicle to around waist height and remove the gearbox bolts around the bell housing and the starter motor. Leave one of the lower large bolts in to prevent the gearbox from coming away from the engine. Remove the wheels, the driveshaft hub nuts on both sides and remove the plastic wheel arch liner. In order to gain more access to the gearbox, remove the bottom sub frame strut and the bottom cross bar. Next drain off the gearbox oil, disconnect both bottom wishbone ball joints and remove the drive shafts. Disconnect the clutch slave cylinder from its mounting and remove the crank sensor from its mounting otherwise it will get broken during the refitting of the Gearbox.

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