I checked the other end of the master cylinder behind the clutch pedal. It has a leak and then i checked my resevoir and it was empty.

I tried to bleed it etc and i just cant do it cuz i suck.

anyways is there a chance it can be the clutch. I dont wanna get the master cylinder fixed and find out it was the clutch

im on a limited budget

 

It's the master cylinder, there's a seal that goes bad where the pushrod is, you'll see it once you take it all apart.

 

Look into changing the slave cylinder too. If the master is bad, the slave isnt far behind.

 

Yea i would def just go ahead and replace both.. its not to expensive and you wont have to worry about it again... and you dont have to bleed it twice!

Make sure your car is on the ground and not jacked up...

When i replaced the master.. for some reason i couldnt get all of the air out of the line by the two most used methods of bleeding, just pumping and releasing the slave valve, or just running a tube from the slave to a bucket, making sure the tube is submerged which usually takes all of the air out of the line... (and making sure the reservior doenst run out of fluid or you will have to start all over...) go watch a tv show.. come back and its good.. but the air just wouldnt come out!!

i couldnt figure it out so i invited a few friends over.

I ended up getting a clear tube that runs from the bottom of the master so i could see how much air was in that area, and i had to keep moving the tube and turning the master to get the air to come out... it took like an hour of fighting air bubbles in a clear tube but... finally i got a little pressure in the pedal. So i lowered the car and with a few pumps and slave turns i had full pressure. (i was putting my new transmission in which is why the car was jacked up at the time and i was doing all of this)..
i had 2 friends, one of them being good mechanic completely puzzled as to the problem with the air not coming out

Heres the funny part... we didnt take it off the jack which was why the air wasnt coming out.

I never would have thought that having the car on a jack would affect the air coming out since its a pressurized system... but i guess i was wrong lol.

I ended up having to bleed the line a few months later... so i tested this senario out again.. and the air just doent want to come out of the car when its jacked up.

Yet... i did it for a friends civic that was jacked up.. and it worked just fine. somethin about preludes.