The failure HAS to be the master cylinder. If there was any problem with the
slave cylinder, it would leak fluid. However, my experience has been that
whenever I rebuild one of the two cylinders, in a very short time I have to
rebuild the other.... so I would just do both.
Jan
GSTROM99@aol.com wrote:
I had a failure on my (Series II) Alpine yesterday (of course it had to
happen in the middle of some giant traffic jam on U.S. Route 30...). Either
the master or the slave cylinder has failed. I push the clutch in and it
disengages OK but after less than a second the clutch re-engages itself, and
off we go... The pedal goes away (to the floor without any clutch
activation), but will "come back" after a pump or two and be OK for the next
time, but fails again the same way the next time. There is NO external loss
of fluid.
Kind of a problem in stop and go traffic, eh??? I limped home on as many
side streets as I could find.
Anybody have a good, easy way to diagnose which unit failed (master or slave
cylinder)?
Gary
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