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Last question for the moment I promise...!

I've just been playing with my clutch as I've always thought the biting point is a bit vauge. I don't really know whats normal for the van, as I have no comparison. In my car, when I hit the biting point, the whole rear end goes right down on the suspension instantly and very noticeably. In the van, as I bring the clutch up all that happens is the revs steadily decrease and eventually it stalls. If I actually look out the back window there is a tiny imperceptably drop on the suspension, but not much.

It still does hill starts, but theres a lot of guess work involved and I always end up overrevving it. Reverse hill starts are nigh-on impossible though. Is this normal?

Difficult to say...it could the clutch is on it's last legs and nearly worn out but then if it's not slipping and is stalling the engine it hasn't reached that point yet.

What you have to consider is these things are massively under powered (small egines/heavy body) they are also rear engined so you hear and feel much less (less feedback through the controls) thats not to say that there isn't an issue but you just might be expecting too much?

Martin