Clutch bleed problem/maybe leak
10-13-2011, 03:05 PM
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Clutch bleed problem/maybe leak
Ok. I'm sitting here enraged right now, but I will attempt to hold down my fury in lieu of a better explanation.
The guys who had my car for 3 months finally gave me the car back. I saw them working on it and ........insult, insult insult...ok. hold it back...
They were having trouble bleeding the clutch. They tried the whole pump&bleed thing, they tried hooking up a hand pump thingy to it, and they (Apparently, I never saw it) even used GMs big clutch bleeder machine tool thingy. They said it finally worked, they had it fixed and done, apparently.....rage filling again....please wait.
well it didn't work. It has been about two weeks and starting a few days ago, the clutch has been progressively worse. The other morning, clutch on the floor, the car started to roll forward on startup...uphill.
Today, I went to fill up gas and on the way, I tried to shift, and it wouldn't come out of gear! It engages if I pump it a few times, but If I accelerate at all, all of the pressure goes out of the pedal and it won't go into or out of gear.
I want to give him back the car, but he doesn't know what to do, to I ask:
Short version/ending: Clutch not engaging, mechanic doesn't know how to fix. How do we get air out of the clutch? do you think there may be a leak somewhere? Where would be most likely?
The guys who had my car for 3 months finally gave me the car back. I saw them working on it and ........insult, insult insult...ok. hold it back...
They were having trouble bleeding the clutch. They tried the whole pump&bleed thing, they tried hooking up a hand pump thingy to it, and they (Apparently, I never saw it) even used GMs big clutch bleeder machine tool thingy. They said it finally worked, they had it fixed and done, apparently.....rage filling again....please wait.
well it didn't work. It has been about two weeks and starting a few days ago, the clutch has been progressively worse. The other morning, clutch on the floor, the car started to roll forward on startup...uphill.
Today, I went to fill up gas and on the way, I tried to shift, and it wouldn't come out of gear! It engages if I pump it a few times, but If I accelerate at all, all of the pressure goes out of the pedal and it won't go into or out of gear.
I want to give him back the car, but he doesn't know what to do, to I ask:
Short version/ending: Clutch not engaging, mechanic doesn't know how to fix. How do we get air out of the clutch? do you think there may be a leak somewhere? Where would be most likely?
10-13-2011, 04:31 PM
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Is the clutch brand new? Is it stock or aftermarket? Was it working fine before you gave it to that guy? The fact that the car was moving forward uphill(!!!!!) with the clutch pedal down really sounds bad! I'm definately 100% in to find out why.
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10-13-2011, 05:32 PM
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Brand new stock clutch. as far as I knew everything was fine with it. The other one worked fine when I took the car to him. He took that one out and installed the new one, but never got it working right. Read some of my other posts about my car to see what a rocket scientist I'm dealing with. I don't want to get into it here. I was glad I finally got my car back..............
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