Clutch Pedal Going All the Way Down
We have installed a new clutch and we bled the clutch but we didnt notice the clutch reservoir was kinda low so now the pedal travels to the flor and gets stuck how can we fix this?
Sounds to me like you got air in the Hydralic Clutch line. What you want to do is get a friend. Go get some Brake Fluid(I think it calls for DOT4 but check your Clutch Reservoir cap first). Take the cap off and fill with fluid. Either you or your friend get in the car and get there hand on the clutch pedal. Get the pedal pulled up first. Now the one of you that is not in the car get a wrench and get ready to crack open the bleed screw on your Clutch Slave Cylinder(on front of tranny). Before you do that have your friend push the clutch pedal DOWN as far as it will go..when he does that have him tell you..now while it is down as far as it will go and he still pushing on the pedal..crack open the bleed screw. Let some of the air and fluid come out..now shut the bleed screw and tell him to pull the pedal up..then he pushes it back down and you crack it open..keep doing this..BUT keep an EYE on the clutch reservoir..if the fluid gets to low then it will SUCK air back in the top and you will have to start all over again.
So once again:
Push clutch pedal down as far as it will go and keep pressure on it.
Then crack bleed screw open
Then tighten bleed screw back shut
Tell friend to pull pedal back up
Your friend that is working the pedal should after a few times of doing this notice that the pedal is not going down as far each time. It doesn't take a WHOLE lot to bleed the clutch system free from air as the line is not all that long.
Just keep that reservoir full. Do the above process 2 or 3 times and then top off the reservoir.
Thats the method I used on my friends Civic and it worked great...he actually said his clutch had never felt that good
So once again:
Push clutch pedal down as far as it will go and keep pressure on it.
Then crack bleed screw open
Then tighten bleed screw back shut
Tell friend to pull pedal back up
Your friend that is working the pedal should after a few times of doing this notice that the pedal is not going down as far each time. It doesn't take a WHOLE lot to bleed the clutch system free from air as the line is not all that long.
Just keep that reservoir full. Do the above process 2 or 3 times and then top off the reservoir.
Thats the method I used on my friends Civic and it worked great...he actually said his clutch had never felt that good
you don't have to do it like the breaks...
1. open bleeder
2. pump 5 times
3. put fluid in clutch master cyl
4. repeat from 2
5. close bleeder
make sure you have a hose attached to the end of the bleeder and the open end is submerged in fluid... from time to time you might want to dispense of dirty fluid in bottle and put new in there... in those cases, close the bleeder before removing the hose from the fluid
good luck!
1. open bleeder
2. pump 5 times
3. put fluid in clutch master cyl
4. repeat from 2
5. close bleeder
make sure you have a hose attached to the end of the bleeder and the open end is submerged in fluid... from time to time you might want to dispense of dirty fluid in bottle and put new in there... in those cases, close the bleeder before removing the hose from the fluid
good luck!
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