clutch pressure

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lifelicksballs
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i dont know if this is the right place to post this but you guys seems to know alot. well after i swapped my car in i also change my clutch slave cylinder to a new one seeing how both the ka and ca's was outdated. however after i did that the clutch pedal just dropped to the floor when i barely even touched it, i brought back up with my foot but when i press it it does the same thing. i tried bleeding but nothing comes out and i even tried pumping the pedal by hand.

any advice?


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Nunook
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where did u bleed it from, the slave or the little box on the frame? If u tried from ur slave, then try from ur dampener(little box).

u could try to disconnect the line entering the dampener to make sure fluid is coming from ur master cylinder. just suggestions.

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If you've got the "dapener box" still hooked up, remove it, and hook the hardline from the clutch master straight to the rubber line going to the clutch slave. Better yet, get a SS line! Regardless, it'll be next to impossible to bleed it with that stupid thing there. You may have to use a vaccuum bleeder.

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lifelicksballs
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okay, i tried the dampener thing a while back but stupid me didnt realize everything was soaked in brake fluid so i kinda rounded it so thats out...so is vacuum bleeding the only way? (i tried searching)

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lifelicksballs
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nm, searched some more and found it

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thats not good

for future work I recommend getting a set of pipe wrenches for working on brake / clutch lines, so it doesn't happen again. Did you round off the metal line itself?

sometime you might want to get a new one from the junkyard and replace it, and then itch that damper box and put in a SS line

for everyone's future reference, I'm using an RX7 FC SS line w/o problems


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