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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 07:37 PM
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I Have A 99 Frc, Does Anybody Have An Idea Why My Clutch Pedal Drops To The Floor When I Accelerate Hard, I Then Have To Pic The Pedal Back Up With My Toe Bit The Problem Seems To Be Getting Worse... Missing Gears Is No Fun The clutch, presure plate and flywheel are new.
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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 07:48 PM
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Time to consider a replacement.
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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 08:38 PM
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Sounds like the master or slave or both if your clutch, p/p and f/w are new. How new? Try bleeding the system first, hope you got the remote bleeder installed when you did the clutch. DRR
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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 09:10 PM
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How about you remove the spring from the clutch pedal?
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Old Aug 27, 2005 | 09:55 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil97SVT
How about you remove the spring from the clutch pedal?
Phil
I already tried bleeding the system, cost me $80.00, did not have the remote bleeder installed, the spring I will try tomorrow..
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Old Aug 28, 2005 | 08:27 AM
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Originally Posted by zo6rookie
I already tried bleeding the system, cost me $80.00, did not have the remote bleeder installed, the spring I will try tomorrow..
Usually when this happens its the slave cyl. When you had the system bled, did the tech notice any wetness ariund the slave?

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Old Aug 28, 2005 | 09:15 AM
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I had the same problem on my 97 and when I replaced the clutch assembly I replaced the master and slave. That fixed the problem. You should have replaced the master slave and installed a remote bleeder when you did the clutch. The only problem I have now is I damaged the tranny driving with a bad clutch! So you should get it fixed ASAP!
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Old Aug 28, 2005 | 04:04 PM
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Originally Posted by Phil97SVT
How about you remove the spring from the clutch pedal?
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Removing that spring will fix 99% of the clutch pedal to the floor problems.
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