All,
Well, I've been busy trying to get a startup company
going so I haven't been working on the 'B' much. The
good news is that with regular maintenance, it has
been running great...until now...
I've had problems with the clutch hydrolic system
weeping fluid for a while, and never got around to
fixing it. I just had to top the master cylinder off
ever once in a while. Well, I guess I let it get to
low the last time I drove it. Here is what happened.
I was driving down the street and noticed that it was
getting harder and harder to change gears and get it
in gear. The clutch pedal was also pretty squishy.
To get it home, I did the "start it in gear, shut off
at stoplights, start it in gear procedure." The
clutch never slips and I usually never had a hard time
engaging or disengaging it so I thought it was the
hydrolics. After getting it home, I looked in the
clutch MC and it was way low on fluid...I let it go
too long.
Fast forward to the following Saturday. I spent
several hours feeding the MC with fluid and trying to
bleed the system. I used an EZ-Bleed, Miti-Vac and a
few other methods, but I could never get all the air
out of the system. The best I could do is be able to
pump the clutch and get it in gear. I could see that
there was still air in the system while bleeding it.
My question is, how do I trouble shoot from here. I'm
almost positive if I could get all of the air out of
the system, it would be working fine. I know the way
to solve the problem for good is to find the leak for
the fluid and fix that and then bleed, but I can't
find the leak either. It kind of looks like the slave
is doing the weeping. There is a rubber boot on the
back end of the slave that looks a little ragged.
Could it be the culprit?
How should I proceed?
How do I know if it is just a bleeding issue?
How do I know if the master cylinder is bad?
How do I know if the slave cylinder is bad?
Thanks as always in advance,
Tom
77B
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