I am banging my head against the wall with this:
Brake master, clutch master and clutch slave cylinder are all less than a year to two old.
Last year I was chasing down a weak clutch and realized that the bracket was broken and it was flexing.
I welded it up and it's been great ever since, with daily driving.
Recently I started getting a little grinding when going into third.
I thought that maybe the synchros were going out, as I felt I read it was common for 3rd to go, first, for whatever reason.
Then it moved, where I was having trouble getting into reverse, 2nd and 4th, and 1st, 3rd and 5th were fine.
I realized it had to be either something with the linkage or the clutch.
First I power bled the clutch at 25psi. This seemed to help but didn't completely remedy the issue so I went ahead and removed the slave and bled it by hand.
This seemed to work at first, but within less than a day I was gradually having more and more trouble getting into gear.
I thought that I just didn't bleed it well enough so I bled the system again, with the slave off, watching the hose for air.
I didn't see any air but again, it seemed to be fine, until later that day.....
I bled AGAIN with the slave off, also cycling the pedal, thinking that somehow air was in the clutch master.
Again, this seemed great, until very shortly thereafter and I am about in the same boat, again.
I am not leaking anywhere, everything is dry and tight.
The levels in the reservoir aren't changing.
My thoughts are that somehow air is getting introduced through the clutch master.
Maybe it was somehow damaged when the bracket was broken and it wasn't always cycling straight up and down?
I am pretty sure I have another new one on hand so I am going to try and out and see what happens.
Open to any suggestions as to anything I am not thinking of?
Brake master, clutch master and clutch slave cylinder are all less than a year to two old.
Last year I was chasing down a weak clutch and realized that the bracket was broken and it was flexing.
I welded it up and it's been great ever since, with daily driving.
Recently I started getting a little grinding when going into third.
I thought that maybe the synchros were going out, as I felt I read it was common for 3rd to go, first, for whatever reason.
Then it moved, where I was having trouble getting into reverse, 2nd and 4th, and 1st, 3rd and 5th were fine.
I realized it had to be either something with the linkage or the clutch.
First I power bled the clutch at 25psi. This seemed to help but didn't completely remedy the issue so I went ahead and removed the slave and bled it by hand.
This seemed to work at first, but within less than a day I was gradually having more and more trouble getting into gear.
I thought that I just didn't bleed it well enough so I bled the system again, with the slave off, watching the hose for air.
I didn't see any air but again, it seemed to be fine, until later that day.....
I bled AGAIN with the slave off, also cycling the pedal, thinking that somehow air was in the clutch master.
Again, this seemed great, until very shortly thereafter and I am about in the same boat, again.
I am not leaking anywhere, everything is dry and tight.
The levels in the reservoir aren't changing.
My thoughts are that somehow air is getting introduced through the clutch master.
Maybe it was somehow damaged when the bracket was broken and it wasn't always cycling straight up and down?
I am pretty sure I have another new one on hand so I am going to try and out and see what happens.
Open to any suggestions as to anything I am not thinking of?
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