Trans. won't go into gear...

**dweigand** · 2-27-06, 21:37

I can't find the thread(s) I am thinking of on this topic, so sorry for the repost.

Luckily this happened as I was rolling into my parking lot just now so I had enough momentum for my car to roll into a spot, but my clutch pedal went straight to the floor and stayed there. I can pull it back up, and then a few pumps yields pressure in the system, but if i step on it again, it stays on the floor.

While the pedal is depressed, I cannot put the car into gear. It's real late and dark so I havent checked the usual suspects yet but I replaced the clutch master and slave cylinders 2 months ago and bled the entire system and it has driven fine since then. Just a freak accident tonight.

PLEASE HELP!! i'm supposed to be going home for spring break in 3 days haha - doesn't look so good now.

**magik8** · 2-27-06, 21:56

Sounds like the slave cylinder you installed was of cheap quality and gave out again. I had found that the only slave cylinder worth installing is a new one from the dealer; rebuilt ones don't seem to last more than a few months.

**dweigand** · 2-27-06, 23:37

That's what I'm figuring, just gotta get some daylight and crawl under there to find out. Yea I bought it at Advance seeing as how I don't plan on keeping the car for more than a few more months, and it's still under warranty so I don't care, I'll keep exchanging these things as long as I need to. Plus it takes like 15 min. to change the part and bleed...

Any other ideas just incase??

**max** · 2-28-06, 12:12

Check your fluid level ... then go from there.

**dweigand** · 2-28-06, 18:41

Fixed! for 3 dollars...

Here's what happened: when I replaced the master/slave cylinders, the threaded connector that screws into the master cylinder didn't screw back in all the way and was loose - and leaking. I guess the master cylinder wasn't threaded deep enough, but I didn't have time to wait a few days for a new part. So I put in a rubber o-ring in between the bolthead and the cylinder. This seemed to do the trick after bleeding the clutch and such. Fluid level remained full, and no problems driving it.

Since this all happened last night, I didn't have the time (or daylight) to check it out, so I went out there today, thinking I was gonna jack the car up and see the slave cylinder press out, then depress (as a broken one should) Well, I didn't even need to jack it up. My friend stepped on the pedal and fluid sprayed out where the rubber o-ring is. I guess the pressure built up so much that it bubbled out and leaked. Anywho, went and bought some smaller I.D. o-rings and a couple washers. Installed a washer and a real small fat o-ring, tightened that bitch up, and all is well.

Oh and bled the hell out of the clutch again. Advance was a little peeved I ordered a slave cyl. this morning then told them I didn't need it after all, but oh well. Car is driving, and it only took 3 bucks and 20 minutes of work.