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I put my car in the shop over the weekend, because the clutch pedal had no pressure on occasion.
As my luck would have it, the pedal worked fine when I took it in, and nothing got fixed.
The pedal still has low pressure, sometimes I have to pump the pedal up so I can get in or out of gear.
I'm thinking I need to bleed my clutch. I did some searching around here, and this sound like
the same problems others have had. The clutch itself has no problems, no slipping.
What do you guys think?

The car has 115000 miles on it, but I never really beat the clutch.

Originally posted by UPSTART-SVT:
I put my car in the shop over the weekend, because the clutch pedal had no pressure on occasion.
As my luck would have it, the pedal worked fine when I took it in, and nothing got fixed.
The pedal still has low pressure, sometimes I have to pump the pedal up so I can get in or out of gear.
I'm thinking I need to bleed my clutch. I did some searching around here, and this sound like
the same problems others have had. The clutch itself has no problems, no slipping.
What do you guys think?
The car has 115000 miles on it, but I never really beat the clutch.

DO IT!

At 115,000 miles you should be changing the brake fluid and the clutch fluid. Getting new fluid in, flushing out any crud that may be in there now, getting any air out will help the clutch pedal action as well as increase the life of the internal hydraulic parts, both clutch and brake.

If you don't know, clutch and brake on our cars share the same fluid and the same resevoir (on top of the brake master cylinder). There is hose off the resevoir that goes down to the clutch master.

Let us know if you need instructions on how to change the fluid.

So now I have no pedal at all. Should I even try to bleed them now, or is it FUBAR?

Originally posted by UPSTART-SVT:
So now I have no pedal at all. Should I even try to bleed them now, or is it FUBAR?

I would still bleed it. Why consider it fubar'd til you have done your cheapest possible fix.

Would it still bleed even without pressure at the pedal?
I didnâ�?��?�t try after this, but when I had the clutch fully pressed the car moved
In reverse. Then put it in neural, pushed it back, turned the car off, and left it there.

Well if the pedal can't move it's pretty hard to bleed.

Originally posted by todras:
Well if the pedal can't move it's pretty hard to bleed.

not true, after i did my engine swap i had the same problem your having...you have to pump the pedal over 30 times..to start building pressure,it'll eventually build up...you really need two people to do it...atleast two makes it alot easier..

Thats what I was thinking. The pedal moves back and forth,
but not because of the fluids or anything.

Originally posted by el' padrone:
you have to pump the pedal over 30 times..to start building pressure,it'll eventually build up...you really need two people to do it...atleast two makes it alot easier..

Pretty hard to pump if it's not moving at all.

It moves, but I don't know if it ingages the clutch.
I was late for work, and didn't have time to play with it.