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Originally Posted by jwasbury
I'm still not sure how a pulley fails, but its apparently common on these... I HATED working on the car and my feeling was cemented when I tried to bleed the clutch.
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The pulley is a two piece design with a rubber core holding it together. The rubber dries out and cracks, causing the two halves to separate. I change them often. More damage occurs when people put solid underdrive pulleys on.
There's a trick to bleeding the clutch on these. You need to remove and compress the slave cylinder fully, then bleed. BMW has a special tool for this, but a steering wheel puller works fine.