HELP! Clutch hydraulics failed
04-23-2009 | 06:15 PM
#1
HELP! Clutch hydraulics failed Here's the story:
Coming home from work, pulling out of a parking lot.. in 1st gear, I get on to the road and go to shift in to second and all gears are locked out. Got the car towed home and now it's in the garage. I tried again when it was parked in the garage, started it in neutral and the gears were locked out, I started it in 1st after that and was able to move through the gears but it almost sounded like the flywheel slightly was rubbing against the clutch plate even with the pedal pushed in, and the car obviously didn't move.
The clutch fluid reservoir is empty, so obviously there is a leak somewhere, a line failed, or something. I thoroughly inspected around the master cylinder, firewall, slave cylinder adapter, inside the car by the clutch pedal mechanism, and I stuffed a rag up in to the bell housing hole.
I can't find a hydraulic leak and I wasn't looking forward to dropping the tranny again but I have a bad feeling that the slave cylinder failed, or something like that.
Can someone please throw some suggestions and/or insight at me?
I'm familiar with all the terms involved. I did a clutch swap over the summer, and have put several thousand miles on it since without any problems.. This was totally out of the blue
Thank you! Please respond asap
Coming home from work, pulling out of a parking lot.. in 1st gear, I get on to the road and go to shift in to second and all gears are locked out. Got the car towed home and now it's in the garage. I tried again when it was parked in the garage, started it in neutral and the gears were locked out, I started it in 1st after that and was able to move through the gears but it almost sounded like the flywheel slightly was rubbing against the clutch plate even with the pedal pushed in, and the car obviously didn't move.
The clutch fluid reservoir is empty, so obviously there is a leak somewhere, a line failed, or something. I thoroughly inspected around the master cylinder, firewall, slave cylinder adapter, inside the car by the clutch pedal mechanism, and I stuffed a rag up in to the bell housing hole.
I can't find a hydraulic leak and I wasn't looking forward to dropping the tranny again but I have a bad feeling that the slave cylinder failed, or something like that.
Can someone please throw some suggestions and/or insight at me?
I'm familiar with all the terms involved. I did a clutch swap over the summer, and have put several thousand miles on it since without any problems.. This was totally out of the blue
Thank you! Please respond asap
Last edited by dannyo210; 04-23-2009 at 06:29 PM.
04-23-2009 | 09:12 PM
#2
You can't find any leaks? Its definitely the hydrualics so you're on the right track. The hydrualics don't hold much fluid so by the time you got home its not like your gonna see a bunch of fluid leaking from somewhere. I'd put some fluid in the resavior and start pumpin the clutch and see where its goin.