clutch woes
 

First off I searched to no avail so please help me out.

I am getting very little pedal pressure when bleeding my clutch. At first I thought that maybe to master or slave had gone bad, so they were replaced. No dice. I had read that the fork can break, and unless it is broken somewhere I can't see it, its fine. When you press the clutch, you can see through the inspection plate where the system is working and pulling the clutch but when the car is running the tranny won't go in gear. Inside the car, the pedal has very little firmness to it. Is there something I am missing? Do I need to bleed more? Is there something I can adjust? Thanks for your help.

did you check the line from the master cylinder to the slave? mine started leaking around the fitting that attached to the master.

sometimes you need to just keep pumping for a while to build the line pressure. Keep trying that first. Liklihood that you broke the fork is not very. Keep pumping!
Art

Same thing happened to mine.

Uhh...you can't see the fork without pulling the transmission, or at the very least using a really good flashlight and dental mirrors through the access panel. They break...frequently. Especially on upgraded pressure plated cars. But anyway, I'd say bleed it again and check your clutch line. If it's the stock rubber, you might have a balloon in the line.

Use a miti-vac on the slave cylinder. Worked for me...

woes
 

Hyperrite... the side I could see of the fork was okay is what I should probably have said.

Also, I didn't have this problem until I switched to a stainless line in between the master and slave. I actually didn't get much pressure until I put the stocker back in. I may go back through and put in the stainless line, teflon tape the connectors, and bleed away. I have read about sucking the fluid through the bleeder, pulling the air out that way, sounds like something I will look into if I can't get it going to manual way. Thanks for the input, time to check the connections on the line and the two units. Any other suggestions?

Use your hand and keep pumping the pedal. I've installed about 200 fd clutches and new lines and I've had to bleed 1 time. Keep pumping to build the pressure. Sometimes it'll take a while. Don't always look for the hard way out.

Art

A Power Bleeder was used on mine as I couldn't get RTS3GEN to come over and pump my clutch for me. ;)

But, intially, it was the same thing cpnneeda. It just takes time to build the pressure back up as RTS3GEN has stated unless you have a miti-vac or Power Bleeder.