So my old clutch was getting pretty worn out (I live in a city built on the side of a mountain) and I needed a few things done to my car anyway, so I decided to do the clutch with the rest of them at the same time. Well I dropped the car off at the shop I've taken all my cars too for 5 years Sunday night. Expecting to have it back by Tuesday or so. Well Tuesday came and went so I gave him a call on Wednesday to ask whats up. He said he was having a really hard time getting the clutch bled. He said hydraulic clutches can be hard to bleed sometimes and to give him a couple more days. So I finally got it back today and he said it still wasn't 100% but it should sort itself out here in a day or two. Well I just drove it for awhile and idk about all that.

When you first get in the car, it feels like you have no clutch at all. You have to pump it up for awhile before you can use it at all. Once you do pump it, it works wonderfully (I got the GMPP stage clutch). But if you don't use the clutch for more than 5 minutes or so (highway driving) you lose it again. Is this something that will really resolve itself if i just keep driving it for a couple days or should I make arrangements to have someone else look at it Monday?

 

Sounds like the TOB is ****. Or you have a bad slave/master

 

I had to replace the clutch master cylinder (NOT the slave cylinder in the trans) and hose to get my GMPP clutch to work properly. The old one leaked air when pressing on the new stiffer pressure plate.

 

That almost implies that mechanical clutches are easy to bleed....

 

I took it to a transmission shop. They got the air out for $60. Damn that GMPP clutch is nice!

 

I don't understand why these "mechanics" don't Google the issue they are having before telling a customer some crock off bull ****. Original mechanic could have fixed OP's car if he would have just read.

 

Bleeding manually?

 

 

I have no idea how they did it. Didn't ask lol