well... heres the story:

a couple days ago, i noticed that the brake pedal was going way too far down, so i checked it and it was almost completely out of brake fluid. i filled it up and checked the pressure i could get with the brakes. the pedal felt very firm and the brakes felt okay driving, so i didn't bleed them.

now, today i was on my way to a friend's party and i was noticing that my clutch pedal was going down a lot farther than it should. it would not dis-engage the clutch until the pedal was almost to the floor. it was still perfectly drivable, so i decided to drive it home after the party and take a look at it in the morning. at the party, one of my good buddies wanted to drive my car, so i let him take it for a quick spin (which was probably a bad idea). he said it was really hard to shift after we had been driving a few minutes and when he was stopped with the clutch in, the car would move. we pulled over, and i was going to drive it back. the clutch had almost no pressure. after pumping it some, i finally got it in gear and drove back to the party.

when i was going to leave, the clutch had NO pressure at all. in fact, it would just stay on the floor if i pushed it in. we got it push started and i managed to shift cluchless the way home.

so... my question is:
is the slave cylinder to the clutch bad, or could it be that when my brake fluid got low, it got air in the system?

by the way, my brakes work fine.

sorry it was so long...

 

Could be all those things and/or a bad clutch master cylinder.

 

Uh, what happened to your brakes could only affect one thing - the brakes. The clutch system has it's own master/slave cylinder and line. The brake system has no affect on this.

Irv, Keith's dad

 

I have a similar problem. My clutch fluid drains out, much more so in cold weather. I found a little bit of a leak coming through up under the pedals in the car. Outside the car on the clutch slave cylinder, when i push the pedal and the plunger(dont know the real name) that goes into the cylnder moves, some leaks out depending on the outside temp. This has also happened with my brake fluid, although its only happened once all the way, and another time it was very low. Until i get a new cylinder i just carry around a can of dot 3 brake fluid and refill it when i notice the pedal getting mushy. I have been driving about a year since i noticed it, its a little bit of an inconvienience but nothing major. Hope this helps, and this was just my problem, yours could be different.
-Jason