Bad Slave Cylinder?

[tn_accord]

my car's clutch pedal was getting soft the last couple of days and then this morning i hop in my car and notice that i have like no clutch and the pedal is soft as hell and doesn't wanna return and the clutch isn't bein disingaged when i press in the pedal. so i stop at the gas station and the slave has a wet spot on it and i press it in and it's squirting fluid out...slave cylinder's fucked right? do they usually just give out like that? and how do you change one out?

[deevergote]

I would change both master and slave at the same time.

You just remove and replace. Not very difficult. The hardest part is getting the master cylinder attached to the pedal. Not really hard... just tight, and a difficult angle.

Bleeding can be a bitch. Mine doesn't want to bleed properly, and it's been down for over a year due to this. Others have had no problems... so either I'm doing it wrong, or there's something broken.

[batever]

my car's clutch pedal was getting soft the last couple of days and then this morning i hop in my car and notice that i have like no clutch and the pedal is soft as hell and doesn't wanna return and the clutch isn't bein disingaged when i press in the pedal. so i stop at the gas station and the slave has a wet spot on it and i press it in and it's squirting fluid out...slave cylinder's fucked right? do they usually just give out like that? and how do you change one out?

ideally you unbolt the radiator fan to create clearance. I wasn't able to do this because some of those mounting screws were too corroded, so I opted to change it out without the extra clearance, which was difficult but I got it done.

Anyways, you just undo the hydraulic line to the bad slave cylinder then undo two mounting bolts, and the old slave will come off. Then put a new one on (autozone kind is fine) or get a rebuild kit for $12 and rebuild the old one (takes about ten minutes but if you don't have compressed air to push the old piston out of the existing slave cylinder, or a super strong magnet to pull it out with, I would advise you to buy a new slave cylinder for $20-$30 instead. You could probably put it on a vise and then drill into the old piston , then put a screw in it and pull it out with needlenose pliers but really unless you have compressed air and/or are desperate to save $10 go with the new slave cylinder as opposed to rebuilding).

Then you just fill the hydraulic system with clutch/brake fluid and bleed the system out.

It should take under an hour, unless you have no clearance and have to wrangle with it endlessly to get it into position, in which case it might take longer.

Undo the negative battery cable before starting to prevent the radiator fan from randomly kicking on while your hand is down there.

you'll need an 8mm wrench (preferably a flare nut wrench but a normal one will problably work) for the hydraulic fitting, and I believe the mounting bolts are 12mm but I could be wrong about that.

[MR.PHIL]

I would change both master and slave at the same time.

You just remove and replace. Not very difficult. The hardest part is getting the master cylinder attached to the pedal. Not really hard... just tight, and a difficult angle.

Bleeding can be a bitch. Mine doesn't want to bleed properly, and it's been down for over a year due to this. Others have had no problems... so either I'm doing it wrong, or there's something broken.

bleeding is easy ,your master cylinder must be out just like mine .

[deevergote]

My master cylinder is new as well!

It's possible that the parts are bad, even though they're new... but I'd be more willing to attribute it to my extreme lack of mechanical ability.

[boostedwagon]

parts could be bad and if they are new should have some kind of warrenty.

let us know how it works out.