the fluid in my clutch reservoir seems to b slowly decreasing, i have looked for leaks and cant find any. in a month or so it will be critically low. and i flushed the reservoir because it got real black. it gets really dirty really fast. like in a month it will turn black. why does the fluid get dirty so fast? and why is it dissapearing, is there any hidden spots in the system that i cannot see. i am usin the synthetic brake fluid, is that causing this? thanks again HT~

EDIT: here is a pic inside the car of the clutch pedal. so this is what you were talking about. so what parts do i need to fix this? thanks a lot all u wonderful HONDAfans!







Modified by 99blackLS at 11:20 AM 1/13/2007

 

sounds like you ride your brakes alot...black fluid = burned fluid = hot temps.

 

even though its my clutch resevoir, my brakes could cause the clutch fluid to be black??

 

oops I guess I should read 100% of the post huh.

Same goes for the clutch though...they both use the same fuild (don't mix with regular dot 3 if you really are running synthetic)

Your clutch gets very hot too, especially under heavy loads. Even normal driving heats up the fluid. Some of it could be old carbon deposits from just circualating over and over.

What are your driving habbits.

 

i dont drive my car everyday and i do not drive it hard and do not ride the clutch. and i have flushed the fluid many times. i would assume that all the built up stuff would be gone by now. but u know what they say about assuming......

 

Haha thats right.

O and in case you didn't know the OEM CMC starts to leaks most every time when the miles or years start getting up there.

Mine does, I have a bottle I keep in the car. It's not a bad leak but enough that after a week or so I can tell by pedal feel, or after autocross it can get low.

I will be getting an Omni power quick relesase this summer, I am going to replace the slave sylinder too.

 

well its a 99 and i just hit 101k. so i guess i just have to deal with it getting low, which is kewl. but still dont understand why it gets soo dirty soo quickly.

 

Yeah, it sounds like the clutch master cylinder, same thing was happening to me for my '95 GS-R. I found the fluid running down the clutch pedal inside the car, and when it got too low, the pedal would not pop back up. Replace it and you're good.

 

happened to me about a few yrs ago. Was the master cylinder. After replacing it, problem went away

 

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100%. Check the inside of the car right around where the rod from the clutch master cylinder connects to the clutch pedal.

 

This happened to me, except it was my clutch slave cylinder. Look under your hood right near the clutch slave cylinder and look to see if its leaking.

 

just had to do my CMC. only 31 shipped from ebay

 

i added a pic on the first post! check it out