Hello all, I am new here and looking for help. I installed a new clutch master cylinder to my car over the weekend and it took me about 8 hours just to get some pressure on my clutch pedal. After hours of trying, I was finally able to get some pressure on my pedal and have bled the system well. Atleast I thought I did. As a reference, I had to fill my reservoir about 6-7 times before I had to stop because it was to dark. I drove my car fine on Monday, the friction zone was deep but I was still able to drive. Today though, it started feeling alittle hard when I switched gears and now I can't even put it into third gear while down shifting. It shifts fine when I up shift. I bled my system again today with no luck, same problem. My question is, do I need to keep bleeding the system? Or is the clutch pedal needs to be adjusted? The way I bled it was by attaching the clear tube to the a little bottle filled with some fluid and had my wife depress the pedal when I cracked the bleeder valve. I stopped seeing bubbles come out the clear tube but either there is still air in the system or the pedal needs to be adjusted. Please feel free to provide your opinion. Thanks in advance.

 

Try this. Have your wife pump the clutch pedal while you continously squeeze the rubber hose that attaches to the reservoir and see if bubbles rise to the top.

Then adjust the clutch free play so there is only about a half inch of free play.

Then bleed the clutch.

 

I bet you have a leak somewhere. I had the same issue, air was getting back into the system over time and would cause the pedal engagement to get closer and closer to the floor.

The system has a lot of connections and failure points, check them carefully. Check the threads at the master cylinder connection; the clutch damper above the tranny on the passenger shock tower; the rubber hose from the clutch damper to the transmission; the fitting on the transmission; and the fitting on the slave cylinder; and then the slave cylinder itself.

Sounds like a lot, but get a good flashlight and you should be able to tell pretty quickly. Just FYI I had a split metal line where it meets the master cylinder so it leaked no matter what I did. I had to splice in a new end of the line.

 

Yeah, sounds like a leak to me too or it never got bled out all the way. Sometimes they are a PITA to bleed.

 

Make sure the bleeder screw on the master is nice and tight (there is one and they normally come from the store loose).