Clutch MC question

[jbruch694]

Hey everyone,

About a year ago I changed the clutch MC, SC and pressure line cause the MC was leaking (all over the damn carpet). It worked fine for a while, but for reasons unbeknownst to me one day I released the pedal and it shot up way higher than it used to. Then when I pushed down it made a squishy hissing noise. It still worked but about 50% of the travel was dead motion, I ran it like this for a while.

Today I bled it in case it was just air in it, and it bled fine, but with the pedal pulled up as far as it wanted to go, I pulled vacuum on the blue braided hose to suck up fluid from underneath and it just pulled air in. I bent the bracket with the clutch switch on it so the pedal sat down further, re-bled it and so long as I don't physically pull the pedal further than it should go, no hissing and it works and feels fine.

Question is: Is there supposed to be an internal "pedal height limiter" in the master cyl, and it just broke on mine? MC was not OEM so would not surprise me. The flimsy bracket the clutch switch is mounted to isnt supposed to be the upper clutch stop, right?

Thanks -JB

[spdracrm3]

should be an internal snap ring that holds the piston assembly into the bore(its spring loaded in bore) that is the piston travel stop, not the pedal stop, if there is a rubber boot remove it an i think you'll find the snap ring under it . sound like it didnt get installed correctly in the grove inside the MC bore , sounds like you might want to remove it again and really inspect the bore and snap ring grove and if appears ok reassemble (much easier to do on a bench or vice) be careful with the piston and seals too. there should actually be a little freeplay at the very top between piston and pushrod with pedal all the way up at stop.

[jbruch694]

Thanks. I ordered a new OEM one, put it in and all is well.