Clutch Diagnosis

[Papa Rad17]

Something with my clutch has been 'off' lately. My money is leaning towards master cylinder, maybe slave cylinder. While the car is rolling there is never a problem but if I am at a complete stop 90% of the time I will have to hit reverse to get into gear or really cram it in there (and you can fell it slide in when it goes) :lol: double clutching does not work either, I figured I would try bleeding. Two different times now the peddle will stay on the floor and have to pumped several times to rebuild pressure. I can't find anyone who has had quite my problem but the master cylinder sounds like the most likely culprit, I think. a good place to start? other ideas?

[rocketfast321]

Change your fluid in your tank. Keep doing like every day till is stays some what clean. I got a post about it on GAOC.

[jawa]

its the master bro my bmw did the same exact shit

[a.graham52]

you when bled it, did you EVER run it out of fluid? if you did then thats half the problem. thye can be a PITA if you screw up.

[Papa Rad17]

I never let the tank get below half full. Due to everythings condition we didnt do a lot of bleeding anyway. and I forgot to mention that yes, the fluid is dirty as crap. It will get pretty thoroughly cleaned when I get into fixing this problem.

[rocketfast321]

Did you find crud at the bottom of the tank.

[Papa Rad17]

there was no sludge to speak of. New master cylinder assemblies come with everything from the tank to bleeder/attachment into the slave. Rockauto has it cheap makes me want to just order it. It looks like its behind the fuse box on the firewall correct?

[rocketfast321]

Inside the trans.

The post i was talking about.
http://www.gaownersclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153045

[jawa]

like i stated above its the master, may as well get a clutch aswell as you will be right there

[Papa Rad17]

Inside the trans.

The post i was talking about.
http://www.gaownersclub.com/forum/showthread.php?t=153045

Lot of good information, thank you!

[chris39]

i had a problem kinda like that when i bought mine it ended up being the slave down fall in i got a eco tec and had to pull the engine

[Papa Rad17]

:awesome: I was out looking for the source of a recent rattle, I found something better instead. Coming off of the tranny there is a bolt that mounts the shifter linkage before the cluster of bearings and crap. That bolt was allowing about a half inch of play! I tightened it down, and bam! Much less play in the shifter, goes into gear every time from a stop, better then it has ever been. There is no more push and slide into gear crap, clutch would feel a bit funny sometimes to. It either in gear, or not in gear, shifts amazing clutch feels right in every gear despite momentum or not. I feel like I had looked at this before, it has been getting worse so I guess it worked its self out far enough I could distinctively see it being loose.