need-for-speed

***EDIT***

4-3-09
See post 73 for an update


...your clutch fluid looks like caca unless you've been changing it per "the Ranger method". Thanks to Ranger's thread, complete with video, I change mine. Ranger's thread:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/c6-c...al-issues.html

I bought my 2008 C6 new. It has 5300 miles on it. I do "let the horses run free" when I drive it (after oil temp > 180 deg), but I do NOT abouse the car. I do not speed shift it. I've never taken it to the track.

This is what my fluid looked like (5,300 miles):



I removed it with the mixer mizer, refilled it with Prestone Dot 4 brake fluid, pumped the clutch pedal 30 times, and it looked like this:



repeated again:



I repeated until I had re-filled the reservoir 6 times. It was pretty clean by the 4th time.

Thanks Ranger !!

HANNY

those systems use very little fluid so its easy to run the reservoir low and they do get dirty. Similiar to motorcycles the easy way is to suck out the fluid, fill, pump, suck, fill, pump. alot of other ways to do it i'm sure but one way i would never do it unless you had an issue with the clutch master or slave cylinder is by bleeding out the slave cylinder. These small systems get air in them and they are a real bit*& to get rid of it sometimes. nice heads up post, i bet you get alot of guys who didnt even know they had a clutch reservoir. lol. paul.

vetteuphoria

Just changed mine last weekend for the first time at 4,400 miles. Mine not as bad. Had to repeat the process three times though I was tempted to try it a fourth.

I am indebted to the help on this forum as well and in this case, Ranger in particular

Raazor

oh great! Something else for my mechanic to do for me.

need-for-speed

Thanks. Yea, no reason to bleed it. The Ranger method is as easy as it gets.

need-for-speed

Hey, if you can fill the washer fluid reservior, you can probably do this yourself.

Raazor

I can't !!!

AORoads

good sense of humor, that fella in Montana....

need-for-speed

Raazor

I can't do anything. My wife changes my underwear!!!!

AORoads

SorcererXIII

I've never tracked my 2008 vert, but I do drive aggressively - i.e. take it to high RPMs, spin the tires, etc., every few days or so (not every day), and my fluid has never gotten anywhere close to as dark as your 1st or 2nd image. Maybe slightly darker than your 3rd image. I've been changing it *about* every 5000 miles, so it should theoretically look similar to yours. I wonder what the difference is?

0Brian@RPT

Such an easy maintenance task and I perform this once a month.

gota07

I would imagine that you being in Nevada has alot to do with it. What turns the clutch fluid dark is the absortion of moisture by the fluid. With your low relative humidity, there is going to be less potential for your clutch fluid to absorb moisture from the air.

Joe_Planet

I tracked my car with 1400 miles on it, my clutch fluid is dirty as @#$%

mksz51

Yeah - but you LIKE that............

Red Rochester

STEVE MC

That's what I like about you Buzz, your an honest guy.

It takes a real man to be able to admitt that.

VettedCandidate

...which is probably happening a LOT more often with Twin Turbos! EWWWWWW!

Hey, don't forget to have the mechanic change that TT fluid fairly often!

Corpsvette

I think I started changing mine at 2000 miles and it looked pretty dark. Now I change it whenever I need to escape to the garage from a little kid/wife relief even if it still looks clear. Takes all of five minutes and the fluid is cheap. I never pump the clutch while stationary to move the fluid, I just drive.