[Bainos]

Hi all,

Picked up a secondhand Focus LT TDCI 6spd hatch at the start of the year as a cheap daily. Thoroughly enjoyed the car so far and gave it a basic oil and filter change around a month ago. However upon driving the car home from work yesterday the clutch pedal when depressed would remain flat to the floor and only return back up the tiniest amount (luckily enough to engage the clutch for changing gears to get me home).

Upon checking the car today, the problem remains and the pedal now no longer returns at all meaning it is undrivable. I suspect that is is due to a failed clutch slave cylinder (located inside the gearbox) as a new pool of fluid has appeared on the floor underneath the bell housing.. open to new suggestions of what else it could be however I am fairly confident this is the issue.

This brings me to the reason for my post I am trying to find where to source an OEM quality clutch kit with a new flywheel and slave cylinder included for as cheaply as possible, best to do both clutch and FW for piece of mind. I suspect that there is probably brake fluid on the existing clutch and it will need replacing, not to mention i am fairly sure it is the original 193K km clutch + flywheel still in the car.

The car is at 193K kms and is nearly due for its 200K km timing belt job, is it also worthwhile me just pulling the engine+gearbox and doing this at the same time or is it not worth removing the engine for this and just doing both jobs with the engine in the car and just removing the gearbox? Can a link also be provided to an OEM quality timing belt kit with water pump and WP gasket, again as cheap as possible.

Thanks in advance.