Help my sanity..
Ever since I got the car, the clutch has never worked 'correctly'. You could get into gear a couple times no problem, and drive it but the pedal would go lower and lower with each push. Eventually, you would need to pull the clutch pedal back up and start the process all over.
After talking with others, I thought the Master Cylinder was dead. So I swapped another supposedly good MC and bled the system. This seemed to help - sorta. The next morning I came out, and there was fluid all over the footwell.. Looks like the seal was bad on this Master Cylinder. So it was rebuild the other MC time!
I rebuilt the other MC with a kit I bought a while back (which exchanges the stock aluminum piston and spring for just a plastic piston) and reinstalled it along with a refurbed slave cylinder. Rebled the system, and even tried reverse bleeding it, but the same issue, in fact even worse, pedel won't return, and can't get it into gear AT ALL.
The return spring on the clutch pedal appears to be fine (it goes over-center and will force the pedal all the way out, or fully against the floor board when not. Unfortunately, the rebuild kit didn't fill me with confidence since the rod and clevis tend to 'popout' of the piston rather easily.
I am at my whits end.. any suggestion (or anyone had similar issues?)
Ever since I got the car, the clutch has never worked 'correctly'. You could get into gear a couple times no problem, and drive it but the pedal would go lower and lower with each push. Eventually, you would need to pull the clutch pedal back up and start the process all over.
After talking with others, I thought the Master Cylinder was dead. So I swapped another supposedly good MC and bled the system. This seemed to help - sorta. The next morning I came out, and there was fluid all over the footwell.. Looks like the seal was bad on this Master Cylinder. So it was rebuild the other MC time!
I rebuilt the other MC with a kit I bought a while back (which exchanges the stock aluminum piston and spring for just a plastic piston) and reinstalled it along with a refurbed slave cylinder. Rebled the system, and even tried reverse bleeding it, but the same issue, in fact even worse, pedel won't return, and can't get it into gear AT ALL.
The return spring on the clutch pedal appears to be fine (it goes over-center and will force the pedal all the way out, or fully against the floor board when not. Unfortunately, the rebuild kit didn't fill me with confidence since the rod and clevis tend to 'popout' of the piston rather easily.
I am at my whits end.. any suggestion (or anyone had similar issues?)
Masters and Slaves can go out fairly often/easily. I have had a couple defective new items
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