Clutch Master Cylinder stuck, engine out
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Clutch Master Cylinder stuck, engine out
Hey there all I'm having problems with my clutch pedal going to the floor as well... Long story shourt I removed my engine and while the engine was out I mistakingly hit the clutch pedal and it went to the floor. The mastercylinder is fully extended and it seems to be stuck open... I need some advice. I tried bleeding, I don't know what else I can do to get it back to normal.... Thanks
Manually pull the clutch pedal off the floor and push the piston on the slave cylinder in you can use the release bearing fork in the transmission bell housing for leverage. (should need a substantial amount of force)
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^ I gave that a try last night it was still hard and didn't move. So how much pressure should I be putting on it?? I'm thinking not much but I put a little muscle into it too and nothin.
Haha .I had this exact same problem myself . Went to drive the car after a rebuild and no drive ! Realised what it was pretty quick so removed the clutch slave cyl. and forced the piston in then refitted . No problem.
Good amount of pressure, if the engine is out your should just be able to push back on the release bearing and fork assembly and use the leverage to push it back in.
Pictures would be helpful
Pictures would be helpful
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FYI, im still dealing with bleeding my clutch after I changed out the lines last week, im picking up a vacuum bleeder later today and giving it another go. its that much of a PITA traditional bleeding does almost nothing when the system is completely dry as the CMC does not push nearly as much fluid as the BMC people have had experiences of even after an hour of traditional bleeding minimal progress was made. Basically I would exhaust all routes before taking it apart.
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I was like WTF hahaha. What did u use to compress it??
I didn't have the issue with the pedal that you seem to have though so not sure what is up at that end .
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FYI, im still dealing with bleeding my clutch after I changed out the lines last week, im picking up a vacuum bleeder later today and giving it another go. its that much of a PITA traditional bleeding does almost nothing when the system is completely dry as the CMC does not push nearly as much fluid as the BMC people have had experiences of even after an hour of traditional bleeding minimal progress was made. Basically I would exhaust all routes before taking it apart.
Also : bleeding was not that difficult . I just pumped the pedal a few times , open the bleeder with pedal down . Pull pedal up . Do that a few times . Then have someone push pedal down while bleed screw is open then close screw and pull pedal up and repeat a couple of times .
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O ok I beleave the pedal isn't coming back has something to do with the slave cylinder not compressing back to its normal position so there's probly no fluid in the clutch master.
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Also : bleeding was not that difficult . I just pumped the pedal a few times , open the bleeder with pedal down . Pull pedal up . Do that a few times . Then have someone push pedal down while bleed screw is open then close screw and pull pedal up and repeat a couple of times .
Are you saying you can't physically pull the pedal up at all ?
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