My clutch pedal has no resistance

[Trueeclipse]

My clutch pedal has no resistance at all !!?!?

i own a 2.4 liter 1996 mitsubishi spyder eclipse

non turbo


is the clutch system hydrolic or no?

what could be wrong?

[SilvrEclipse]

Yes the clutch is hydrolic. Check your resivoir to see if there is fluid in it. Then find where the leak is at.

[Trueeclipse]

I will try this tommorow and let you know how it goes.


I looked in the resovoir today and the liquid was frozen!!!!!

what does that mean

[SilvrEclipse]

Brake fluid doesn't freeze, must be water in there or something. I would recommend changing that shit.

[MazdaX]

Hmm frozen brake fluid means you need more anti freeze in it...=)

Seems like someone didn't use the right fluid on last fill up. I've been in one of the most extreme places where -60 comes and goes on a whim and never seen brake fluid freeze :/

I would suggest draining , replace the seals ( master / slave ) as the freezing water or whatever was jammed in there may have ruined them. Easy fix shouldn't take more than an hour to do and you should regain pressure. Then again , when I had my tranny built I thought it was weird that the clutch pedal was softer to press in than the gas pedal but I get perfect shifts everytime.

[Trueeclipse]

ok so we tried bleeding it but nothing came out...

maybe we did it wrong,

can someone provide step by step instructions on how to bleed clutch for a 1996 mitsubishi 2.4 L non turbo eclipse.

thanks

[SilvrEclipse]

You need to totally drain out all the fluid. Take the bleeder screw completely out and let everything drain out. Then refill the system with brake fluid and bleed the system.

[ned032002]

When you "bleed" the brake lines, all your doing is removing the air from the system. Like Silver said you need to remove all of the fluid from the system. I would even drain everything out then let some brake run through it just to clean out all of the old crap. Then reinstall the bleeder nipple and top off system then bleed out the air.

[Black99GST]

not to mention your master cylinder is probably trash... check the inside of your car, on the floor by the clutch peddle, if theirs fluid their (on the carpet and such) its time to replce that little bugger

[Willskyline]

Originally Posted by Black99GST

not to mention your master cylinder is probably trash... check the inside of your car, on the floor by the clutch peddle, if theirs fluid their (on the carpet and such) its time to replce that little bugger

BINGO! This is what happened to mine (mine was slave cylinder, but same concept). Call your mechanic.

[Black99GST]

Originally Posted by Willskyline

Call your mechanic.

[Willskyline]

Originally Posted by Black99GST

Don't call your mechanic, then? It's hard to determine skill level based on posting. If the OPer can do it himself, then awesome. If not? Mechanics are good to have even if you are mechanically inclined.