If you can afford the $100, get a master and slave cylinder and replace
them both.
If you just do the slave, the general feeling that I have gotten from
the list is that the master will follow soon after. Same goes for the
slave if you do just the master. And it is SO much nicer when it all
works right anyway.
On Tue, 28 Nov 2000 18:11:22 -0800 (PST), Tom McLaughlin wrote:
>All,
>Well, I've been busy trying to get a startup company
>going so I haven't been working on the 'B' much. The
>good news is that with regular maintenance, it has
>been running great...until now...
>
>I've had problems with the clutch hydrolic system
>weeping fluid for a while, and never got around to
>fixing it. I just had to top the master cylinder off
>ever once in a while. Well, I guess I let it get to
>low the last time I drove it. Here is what happened.
>I was driving down the street and noticed that it was
>getting harder and harder to change gears and get it
>in gear. The clutch pedal was also pretty squishy.
>To get it home, I did the "start it in gear, shut off
>at stoplights, start it in gear procedure." The
>clutch never slips and I usually never had a hard time
>engaging or disengaging it so I thought it was the
>hydrolics. After getting it home, I looked in the
>clutch MC and it was way low on fluid...I let it go
>too long.
>
>Fast forward to the following Saturday. I spent
>several hours feeding the MC with fluid and trying to
>bleed the system. I used an EZ-Bleed, Miti-Vac and a
>few other methods, but I could never get all the air
>out of the system. The best I could do is be able to
>pump the clutch and get it in gear. I could see that
>there was still air in the system while bleeding it.
>
>My question is, how do I trouble shoot from here. I'm
>almost positive if I could get all of the air out of
>the system, it would be working fine. I know the way
>to solve the problem for good is to find the leak for
>the fluid and fix that and then bleed, but I can't
>find the leak either. It kind of looks like the slave
>is doing the weeping. There is a rubber boot on the
>back end of the slave that looks a little ragged.
>Could it be the culprit?
>
>How should I proceed?
>How do I know if it is just a bleeding issue?
>How do I know if the master cylinder is bad?
>How do I know if the slave cylinder is bad?
>
>Thanks as always in advance,
>Tom
>77B
>
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