My clutch has always been pretty soft to press down but yesterday it started to not bounce all the way back up, but it still drove fine. Today in the morning the clutch pedal was floored all the way down and I could not get it in gear, in the afternoon I put some brake fluid on the container, (which was empty and the VERY small quantity of liquid there was, was very black) pressed the clutch in a bunch of times until it worked again, then I went to play some ball and when I got back in the car the pedal was low again but it drove fine. Yesterday I noticed a little pond of brake fluid on the inside of the car right below the clutch pedal and I touched the pedal and it was definetely wet, so it is dripping from the inside and I think the outside of the car too cause I saw a little pond on the street where the car had been parked but I am not 100% sure it was my car that made the pond on the street.
I looked under the car while pressing the very little it allowed and when I released it a thin silver tube connected to a wider one bled, I don't know if there are any seals that might have gotten torn or what.
I have a stock 1991 hatchback 240 hatback btw ka engineany advice would be appreciated.
Clutch problem.
I had the EXACT same problembut your sounds more serious because it appears to me that its your MASTER CYLINDER thats shot and not your SLAVE CYLINDER (mine was slave, therefore cheaper to fix)
toss a piece of cardboard under your slave cylinder and master (master is at the firewall, driver side & slave is on the passenger side between the door and the transmission) to find which is causing the problem.
when you find out which it is, its just a matter of skill (if you want to rebuild ur cyl.) or money (if you want to just buy a new one)
I know the bolts on my slave were a pain to get off, so I had to take it to my friends house and bust them off with an impact wrench. Hopefully yours wont be so bad.
toss a piece of cardboard under your slave cylinder and master (master is at the firewall, driver side & slave is on the passenger side between the door and the transmission) to find which is causing the problem.
when you find out which it is, its just a matter of skill (if you want to rebuild ur cyl.) or money (if you want to just buy a new one)
I know the bolts on my slave were a pain to get off, so I had to take it to my friends house and bust them off with an impact wrench. Hopefully yours wont be so bad.
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JaY33s240Sx
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Had the same problem too....Slave Cylinder was shot...Replace it and you should have no problem...mines died on me while i was on the highway...There was a Pep Boys near by...I walked down to it, bought a new slave cylinder and a set of wrenches. Went back to my car which I had parked in a Barnes & Nobels parking lot and fixed my car right there...About 30 minutes later I was flying down the highway again...So its a pretty quick fix...