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replaced master cylinder... more issues


cannon86
08-19-2010, 06:10 PM
so to start off i am having shifting issues. when i 1st turn on the car and try to put my civic into gear the stick will not find its way into any of the gears unless i let it warm up or let it roll, some times after this i can get it in. well in order to fix this (and avoid redoing the clutch/tranny) i have already replaced the slave cylinder fairly easily and have just tried to do the master clutch cylinder. well its in now but there is a bad squeaking in the clutch fluid line and the slave cylinder... i have bled it through about 2 bottles now and this problem is still persistant. is there still air in the line or what?

AutoService101
08-19-2010, 06:14 PM
Chances are you have bad syncros internally, sounds like time for a new trans or rebuild that one (depending on which is cheaper)

cannon86
08-19-2010, 06:27 PM
syncros.... the gear plates correct? and what happens if i run my car w air bubbles in the line? i have tried to get em all out but im not 100% sure... bubbles stopped comming outta the bleeder.... and i was looking around and came across the idea of lifting the car up some way to make it easier for the bubbles to come out any idea which end i should lift?

AutoService101
08-19-2010, 06:33 PM
If you have air in the lines the pedal will be spongy. Your symptoms did not fit with a bad master or slave cylinder in my opinion. If I could have only driven your car before....Either way you have other issue's beside air in the line. How does the pedal feel when you push it in? If it feels "normal" you issue is internal. I would venture to guess that you pedal feel was fine before you replaced those parts.

cannon86
08-19-2010, 06:39 PM
well now its back to normal as far as feel but it now has a squeak and i have no idea why. could i get around my issue of not getting it into gear when the car is 1st started by just starting it in reverse or 1st? (that revelation just occured to me)

cannon86
08-19-2010, 06:48 PM
so i just took it for a spin around the block this time starting it i had no issue getting the stick into gear but the squeak is still there sitting here in myh garage now l believer the noise is comming from the slave cylinder which i replaced 10k miles ago and never experianced this till now after doing the master clutch cylinder

AutoService101
08-19-2010, 07:55 PM
When are you hearing this squeaking noise??

cannon86
08-22-2010, 08:56 PM
when i depress the clutch... the noise seems to run through the line and almost worst at the slave but as i have said i did that 10k miles ago and never had an issue before now

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