Hi! I am trying to locate the clutch fluid reservoir on my 2004 R53. Please advise. Thanks!

 

I actually just did a fluid flush. Funny enough the clutc shares the reservoir with the brake fluid.

My clutch slave cyl failed this week, replaced it and did a brake/clutch flush. Bought the part and a flush kit from pelican parts, who by the way have an excellent how to forum. It had step by step instructions, and pictures.

Biggest hurdle is getting the fluid into the slave cyl, it needs to be compressed to flush/bleed properly. It is well explained in the how to.

Whole job took 2hours including clean up. But I have a lift.

Bill

 

Thanks Bill. Here is the issue(?)-Clutch pedal doesn't have a lot of travel, and there is almost immediate disengagement when letting off the pedal. Maybe this is normal, but I think not? Pumping a few times SEEMS to help a bit, so I was thinking low fluid. Master cylinder appears to be full, and looks newer than other parts under the hood. Thoughts?

 

Needs to be properly bled as in Vwbill's post.

 

Hope that is easy! I used to do it easily on my Triumph, along with an assistant to pump the clutch pedal...

 

It's pretty easy and you can also use the two person method to flush it. I would bleed the whole system starting with the brakes ending with clutch. Super Blue fluid helped as I could see when the old fluid was out and fresh starting to pour.

Pelican does have an article in bleeding but the procedure assumes you're buying a 60 pressure bleeder from them which I did not.

 

Caution! Please read the "how to" on this procedure. If you don't depress the slave cylinder's piston fully and keep it depressed while bleeding, you will have a nightmare on your hands and will go through a few liters of brake fluid before you know it.

 

Sounds lik the symptoms I had prior to the slave cyl failure. The the pedal hit the floor and stayed.

Pull the belly pan cover and find the slave cyl. I bet it is leaking and loosing pressure. The replacement part from pelican is cheep, $25. The dealer was $150.

As noted, for sure follow the directions, that cyl needs to be depressed. I missed that and wasted 2l of fluid. The pressure bleeder and the blue brake fluid definitely saved lots of effort and made it a one man job.

Good luck.

 

I was under the impression the master cylinder needed to be closed when installing a new unit not just when bleeding. When bleeding there is already fluid in the system, a new unit if open will introduce a big air bubble if it is not closed prior to installation.

The bleeding really was not a hard job, just like the brakes but have your helper press the clutch instead of brakes and open the clutch bleeder valve. Try to bleed it first then see if that fixes the problem, you may have a bad master cylinder. In that case, Pelican has a write up which does layout the process to close the cylinder prior to installation.

 

Having a bleeding issue after a slave cylinder replacement. So the brakes will need to be bled as well if air gets in the line?

 

If you installed the cylinder without closing it I would bleed the whole system. I would get a pressure bleeder because you've introduced a big air bubble (if the cylinder was not closed before installation) and getting it out will be impossible or take a few quarts of brake fluid and patience.

 

Hey Cease. I actually tried to swap the cylinders and the rubber bushing at the end of the line stuck inside the old cylinder so i lost alot of fluid. So yeah, now I have a huge bubble. I have had 2 shops with pressure bleeders try to correct this with no luck....