Hello All,
I have a 2002 Honda Civic LX with a proper transmission. About a month and a half ago ago I put in a new clutch plate and all and reinstalled everything,except for the clutch slave cylinder grommet at the transmission. I don't know why, I guess I was lazy and in the back of my head I thought I did the install wrong the first time or something. Any who so today I decided I spend an hour or so and put the grommet back on. So put the car up on stands, took the cylinder off, put the grommet back on, and reinstalled the cylinder and well now the clutch doesn't engage. It has worked fine for the last month or so, the purpose of this whole day was to just install a grommet.

I started the car, bled the lines, tried pumping the brakes since they work off the same cylinder and all and it still does not work.

Any thoughts?

 

The clutch does not work off the same cylinder as the brakes...if it did, every time you hit your brakes it would be like pushing in the clutch. You need to bleed the clutch slave cylinder while pushing in the clutch pedal.

 

The brake and clutch fluid run off the same fluid line, my assumption was that air somehow it in there, no **** they don't run off the same cylinder, and bleeding the clutch slave cylinder was the first thing I did.

 

I'm gonna go outside and look at my Civic to make sure i'm not talking out my ***, but I don't see how they could POSSIBLY run off the same line. Either I'm misinterpreting what you're saying or you're incorrect. You do see the smaller clutch fluid reservoir to the right of the brake fluid reservoir when you're looking down at your engine bay, correct? That reservoir has lines that run directly to the clutch slave cylinder and shouldn't tie in anywhere with the brake lines. It's possibly that they run in parallel in the engine bay, but they shouldn't connect. How did you perform the clutch slave cylinder bleeding? If you don't have a vacuum pump, you'll need two people, one to push the clutch pedal down and hold it down while you crack open the bleeder valve (with a line on it, of course). Tighten the bleeder valve then they will likely need to pull the pedal up off the floor. Don't allow the clutch fluid reservoir to run low. Repeat until you are sure there are no bubbles, then do it about 5 more times.