Blown Slave Cylinder

[Ian Clark]

Hi Paul, that's brilliant, back filling from the brake caliper, I'm going to remember that and certainly worth a try here.

Mitchell, If the pushrod was too long AND the clutch fork, throw out bearing and clutch pressure plate are all OK, then you would have to engage and lift the clutch pressure plate in order to have the slave cylinder fully seated so the mounting bolt will thread into place. That's got to be at least 50 -100lbs of shoving to line up.

Also the slave would try to pop out before you got the bolt in since the pressure plate would be pushing back against the clutch fork. So if the mounting bolt goes in without argument, the slave piston is not too long IMHO.

A ton of great suggestions offered and questions asked on this thread about your situation. It will be good to find out what solves it.

Cheers
Ian

 

[Randy V]

Mitch -
Had this clutch slave been working fine in a driving car up to the point where it sat idle for a very long period of time - and now it has this problem?

My reason for asking is —
Sometimes clutch disks will “stick” to the flywheel and/or pressure plate. Stepping on the clutch pedal will **not** release the clutch disk and actually the pedal will be quite firm if not solidly hard like a brake pedal. Efforts to overpower this bond in the clutch will put line pressures well over the design limits of the hydraulics.