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Author Topic: Constantly Variable Clutch Pressure  (Read 1745 times)

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Offline TahoEagle

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Constantly Variable Clutch Pressure
« on: October 14, 2011, 09:59:34 PM »
I've owned my '85 Eagle for about a year and a half now, and it's always had (what I presumed to be) a leaky master and/or slave clutch cylinder (5-speed manual). Leave it sitting overnight and there'd be no clutch pressure to speak of in the morning, and a nice little puddle of fluid on the driveway. For the longest time I'd just dealt with it by filling up the reservoir tube with DOT-3 brake fluid and pumping the clutch until I'd build up pressure and be on my way. Well I finally bit the bullet to get the slave & master clutch replaced a few weeks ago. All seemed to be going well, until the mechanic called me up to tell me that, although the new slave & master cylinders had fixed the leaking problem, he still couldn't get the clutch pressure up, even after bleeding the system twice. When I went to the shop to take a look at it with him, the pressure had somehow built back up again, and I was able to drive off no problem. Things worked well for a few days, but then the pressure problem returned. A glance under the hood showed that reservoir tube as empty, but no major puddles on the ground. So I'm once again doing the DOT-3 routine, but now clutch pressure is more variable then ever. Whereas before you could build it up after pumping for a while, now you could build it up and it'd be gone shortly thereafter only to return in full force a few minutes later, then disappear again. I'm noticing much fewer puddles on the driveway now, but am still thinking there's a leak somewhere. Is there a location in there aside from the slave & master cylinders where leakage could occur? Could that  :censored: reservoir tube be the culprit, or could there be something more serious at play? The previous owner had told me that she'd had the clutch replaced less than a year before I bought the car as well (but, of course, didn't keep any service receipts)  :banghead:


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