Clutch Slave Cylinder Leak
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Clutch Slave Cylinder Leak
My slave is leaking onto the transmission. What is the best way to go about replacing the slave cyliner? It's back there pretty far. Pictures speak a thousand words if anyone has any.
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its not back pretty far. look at your clutch fluid resevoir, then follow the line, there will be a divider, then another line, then you will see a black thing, with a boot on it, thats the cylinder. i bled out the whole system to fluid dont squirt everywhere, took it out, put the new one in, then bled the system for air. should be self explanatory
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It's held on by two bolts, both accessible from the top, back behind the oil filter on top of the transmission. Before you loosen those bolts, loosen the connection from the flexible rubber hose at the slave cylinder about half a turn, just to loosen it - Don't try to remove it at this point. Next, remove the two bolts on top, and the cylinder is free. Now unscrew the cylinder from the rubber hose, not the hose from the cylinder. (Turn the cylinder, not the hose.) Very easy. Reverse the procedure to install the new cylinder. You'll have to bleed it after all of the connections are done. I've found that it makes access to the bleed nipple easier if you remove the oil filter.
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slave cylinder rebuild
Had the same trouble with mine. Autozone has a rebuild kit for like $5 and comes with seals and a new alum. piston and spring. You will have to have a small brake cylinder hone to clean up the housing if it is not pitted only took about an hour to do the rebuild, also did the master cyl. on the clutch at the same time and replaced the rubber hose all for less than the cost of the slave cylinder alone.
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Originally Posted by lake snake
Had the same trouble with mine. Autozone has a rebuild kit for like $5 and comes with seals and a new alum. piston and spring. You will have to have a small brake cylinder hone to clean up the housing if it is not pitted only took about an hour to do the rebuild, also did the master cyl. on the clutch at the same time and replaced the rubber hose all for less than the cost of the slave cylinder alone.
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^Go to Autozone or Sears and ask for brake cylinder hone. They're about $10. It fits in your dril, and you use it to break the glaze in the cylinder. You just run it in and out of the cylinder a dozen or two times, keeping it lubricated with brake fluid the whole time. If there are pits (small rusty holes) in the cylinder, throw it out and buy a new one. Actually, you should just buy one to start with - They're not expensive. I bought mine on ebay for $42 shipped.
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