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YOUR RESEARCHClutch working better, not sure why, ?'s
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Anyone who has thought about doing the various clutch mods like removing the assist spring or changing assist spring because they are not happy with there clutch feel, may want to pump their clutch about 100 time with the car off and see what happens.
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I was seriously thinking of replacing the OEM assist spring with the Home Depot one before I blindly stumbled on to what happened today.
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While the brake hydraulic system appears to be well-served by using a pressure bleed device my limited experience is to get the best results for the clutch bleed after using the pressure bleed device to flush old fluid out of the clutch hydraulic lines/slave cylinder the old fashioned technique of depressing the clutch pedal and holding it down while bleeding out some fluid at the slave cylinder is still the better way and worth the trouble.
Use pressure bleed device my limited experience is
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While the brake hydraulic system appears to be well-served by using a pressure bleed device my limited experience is to get the best results for the clutch bleed after using the pressure bleed device to flush old fluid out of the clutch hydraulic lines/slave cylinder the old fashioned technique of depressing the clutch pedal and holding it down while bleeding out some fluid at the slave cylinder is still the better way and worth the trouble.
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Suggestion · Original poster
Anyone who has thought about doing the various clutch mods like removing the assist spring or changing assist spring because they are not happy with there clutch feel, may want to pump their clutch about 100 time with the car off and see what happens.
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While the brake hydraulic system appears to be well-served by using a pressure bleed device my limited experience is to get the best results for the clutch bleed after using the pressure bleed device to flush old fluid out of the clutch hydraulic lines/slave cylinder the old fashioned technique of depressing the clutch pedal and holding it down while bleeding out some fluid at the slave cylinder is still the better way and worth the trouble.
Use pressure bleed device my limited experience is
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While the brake hydraulic system appears to be well-served by using a pressure bleed device my limited experience is to get the best results for the clutch bleed after using the pressure bleed device to flush old fluid out of the clutch hydraulic lines/slave cylinder the old fashioned technique of depressing the clutch pedal and holding it down while bleeding out some fluid at the slave cylinder is still the better way and worth the trouble.
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'99, 6spd, C2, cab., 60K miles, original clutch.
So I have been seeing a few dots of fluid on the garage floor lately. Raised her up and determined my clutch bleed valve (above the transaxle) is leaking. To figure out if it was just not tight or whether it was leaking from the threads I had to pump the clutch to induce the fluid to leak. I did this many times, probably 100 pumps with the car off to get to the exact source of the leak. So clutch bleed valve fixed, no leak, took all of 30 minutes.
So here is what confuses me. I went for a 50-60 mile drive, and my clutch never felt better. By this I mean the following:
1.) It's lighter and seems to have a uniform pressure from top to fully pressed. Before it had more pressure just as you pressed it and then lighter as it got to the floor.
2.) It engages so much smoother than before. I used to always "buck" the car when shifting from 1st to 2nd to 3rd. This was because the engagement point was very "grabby". I would have to really try to not get any "bucking" thru those lower gears. Now I can't get the car to "buck" if I wanted it to. No matter how fast or slow I release the clutch, it just engages like butter. Before it felt like it slammed down an caused the "bucking" I described.
3.) Perhaps most noticeably and most welcomed is that my gear shifter is butter smooth from gear to gear. Before it would be "notchy" and sticky. Now it falls into gear even under load, the difference is night and day. Even when cold it practically fell into 1st gear. Before when cold, it would have to slowly force it into 1st.
So, why do you guys think all this changed? Other than pump the clutch a hundred times or so with the car off I did nothing to it. What I'm really wondering is was my clutch pedal working correctly before this? or is the way it's working now the way it should have always been? May be something became "unstuck" or something due to the pumping.
The only thing I can think of is that perhaps I let air into it as I loosened and tightened it a few times to fix the leak, but that seems unlikely since the valve was always shut tight when I pumped the brakes. What would be the symptoms of excessive air in clutch?
Funny thing is, if this is how my clutch pedal and shifter work with air in the clutch line , I'm keeping it this way.
B3freak mentioned pumping his clutch pedal 10x before he starts his car and that it makes a huge difference in the feel of his clutch. I'll let him chime in but I think he found it documented somewhere.
I read that also. I still find it hard to believe it would make such a dramatic difference in so many ways as I have documented. Oh well.
As far as bleeding the clutch, I actually do it myself. Last time was about 4 months ago when I did the brakes also. I follow the factory procedure. What I just did today was not even close to how one goes about bleeding the clutch.
Anyone who has thought about doing the various clutch mods like removing the assist spring or changing assist spring because they are not happy with there clutch feel, may want to pump their clutch about 100 time with the car off and see what happens. I was seriously thinking of replacing the OEM assist spring with the Home Depot one before I blindly stumbled on to what happened today.
Will report if things change.
Agree with this.
The brake/clutch fluid flush/bleed is very important. Briefly, I found just a 2.5 year span between this service had the clutch and shifting action of my Boxster noticably degraded.
After a past due brake/clutch fluid flush/bleed the transformation, the improvement, of both the clutch action and shifting was remarkable.
While the brake hydraulic system appears to be well-served by using a pressure bleed device my limited experience is to get the best results for the clutch bleed after using the pressure bleed device to flush old fluid out of the clutch hydraulic lines/slave cylinder the old fashioned technique of depressing the clutch pedal and holding it down while bleeding out some fluid at the slave cylinder is still the better way and worth the trouble.
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