Need help witn my clutch
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Need help witn my clutch
My clutch solution was black, so I decided to clean it in 3 or 4 steps.
With a sponge, the two times I cleaned the solution in the plastic little bottle and put new DOT 3 solution in a period of two weeks, but today, the third time I cleaned again with a sponge and got some air inside because when I was driving the car, the pedal began not to function properly. It stays in the bottom and does not return back. I can change speeds with no problem but the pedal clutch doesnot return back.
What could it be ???? Please I donot want to go to the dealer and we have been trying to bleed the clutch stepping up and down and putting more solution, but it does not work properly. I suppose air cannot go out of the system.
Where is the solution to this simple problem ???
Thanks in advance
With a sponge, the two times I cleaned the solution in the plastic little bottle and put new DOT 3 solution in a period of two weeks, but today, the third time I cleaned again with a sponge and got some air inside because when I was driving the car, the pedal began not to function properly. It stays in the bottom and does not return back. I can change speeds with no problem but the pedal clutch doesnot return back.
What could it be ???? Please I donot want to go to the dealer and we have been trying to bleed the clutch stepping up and down and putting more solution, but it does not work properly. I suppose air cannot go out of the system.
Where is the solution to this simple problem ???
Thanks in advance
Burning Brakes
Joined: Aug 2011
Posts: 1,160
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From: Vancouver Island
well i am not 100% sure but it sounds like your slave cylinder is sticking. happened to me once, went to drive my car out of my shop, pushed in the clutch pedal stayed on the floor and would not come up. left it over night, pedal came up on it's own. seems to me it's because the clutch fluid gets contaminated with clutch dust and seal particles making the slave cylinder stick in the extended position. search the "Ranger Method" and that should help. if not you will need to see a technician. hope it works out well for ya. 
Le Mans Master
Joined: May 2007
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From: Belleville Mich.
Evidently, you are leaving out a little bit of the story.
I believe you may have pushed the clutch pedal in while you were doing the cleaning & with the reservoir empty or partially empty?
If that were the case, you have air into the clutch hydraulic system.
A bleed will be necessary to clear the system of air.
I believe you may have pushed the clutch pedal in while you were doing the cleaning & with the reservoir empty or partially empty?
If that were the case, you have air into the clutch hydraulic system.
A bleed will be necessary to clear the system of air.
