searched everywhere, couldn't find anything quite like this. This happened very randomly (as these things do) this afternoon... Basically, if I push in my clutch real slow, I feel no pressure all the way to the floor (obviously not disengaging anything) and so I can't put it into gear. When I push in my clutch fast, it disengages fine, allowing me to put it in gear, however; it re-engages fine, but it does so extremely close to the floor, leaving me with about 4in of free play. It's a completely stock clutch, and there's no leaking fluid as far as I can tell from the reservoir. I'll be taking it to a lift sometime this week, but my time is limited and I want to have all my options covered so I don't miss anything while i'm under the car. So any ideas are much appreciated. Thanks!

 

i'd say check your fluid...you might have some air in the system too

 

Most likely clutch hydraulics. It doesn't have to leak to be bad - if the seals are worn, the pressure will leak inside the cylinder and you won't build enough pressure to disengage the clutch.

If you want to do it RIGHT, get a new clutch master, clutch slave, and a stainless braided clutch line. Put it all in, bleed the system, and forget about it for the next 100,000+ miles.

If one part of the clutch hydraulics goes out, the rest is typically going to follow soon. Replace one part, you put an increased load on the other parts, so you'll be replacing those before you know it. Best just to do the whole thing in one go.

Good thing is nothing is wrong with your clutch, and labor-wise changing out the hydraulics is really easy.

Dale

 

if I pull apart the clutch master and slave, am I going to be able to tell which one is the problem considering there's no visible leak? If I was able to see the problem then I would rather just rebuild it at this point.