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clutch problem (soft and not engaging)

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Old Jun 26, 2012 | 06:04 AM
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clutch problem (soft and not engaging)

Hi All would just like to ask if someone can help me this is the first problem that i encountered after 8 mos of owning the car. it is a 2005 with 64kmiles. The previous owner already replaced the clutch and also the internals of the transmission anyways, the car was great until today when i'm heading back to our house i noticed that the clutch became soft then i tried pumping the clutch 2 or 3 times hoping that the clutch will get harder. Unfortunately, it became soft and luckily i'm 3 blocks away to our house so i drove the car in first gear until i arrived in our house. after i parked the car in front of our house i was able to put it to neutral and tried putting it to other gears but it doesn't want to go in. I tried putting/topping the brake/clutch fluid until it is max thinking there's a leak somewhere however i don't find any leak or whatsoever. after 5 hours i checked the fluid to see if it goes down but it still there in max. is this the case of clutch slave cylinder? is this the part number for it 21516777428? do i have to check for anything? thanks
 
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Old Jun 28, 2012 | 07:48 AM
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Going in the right direction keep looking into the slave cylinder. They are made of plastic and tend to break.
 
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Old Jun 28, 2012 | 08:39 AM
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ok the mechanic changed the slave cylinder but still no clutch. i checked it and i keep on pumping it while he was bleeding it. it seems that the clutch got harder then became spongy again. I tried to put it on a gear but i was able to do it just 2 times. then we tried to change the master clutch cylinder but still no clutch. we are using the motive power bleeder
 
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Old Jun 28, 2012 | 11:25 AM
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Was the slave compressed when bled? If not there could still be air in the cylinder.
 
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Old Jun 28, 2012 | 04:34 PM
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ok will ask the mechanic to use a c clamp hope he can get it right. he said they do not need to compress the cylinder because they have the power tools thanks
 
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Old Jun 28, 2012 | 09:48 PM
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This might help http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?desktop...--suwqw0&gl=US

When bleeding the clutch from bottom up like in the video there's no need to compress the slave. Top down it will need to be compressed.
 
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