The other day I noticed a wet spot on my floor mat drivers side, but the weather has been very dry here for a while. So I looked closer and discovered that fluid from the clutch master cylinder was leaking and running down the clutch pedal, and dropping onto the floor mat.
I have about 83k miles on the car.
So, my question is: What is the repair for this? Is there a rebuild kit for the master cylinder? Or, do we just replace the master cylinder with a new/rebuilt one?
Mine is leaking too. If I park the car at an incline, it leaks even more. That is cool to know that it can be replaced for roughly $40. My question is regarding the procedure...is it that hard to do that is better to take it to the dealer? Is there any procedure on how to do it yourself written up somewhere? Thanks!!!
i dont have a write up for it but basically what you do it take off the lower dash panel off
-Remove the two lines connecting to the master cylinder from the engine side of the fire wall
-remove the pedal assembly from under the car
-switch the master cylinders from the pedal assembly and reinstall
-and then reinstall the lines and bleed the system
very general write up but its been a while since i have done it but i hope it helps you a little bit.
Any tricks for removing the two lines on the Firewall side? I see the two block lines with green tips on them. It appears maybe there is a release clip of some type and then they pull off?
I don't understand why they can't make the same as the brake one- push in white clip and it pulls right off
The only real difficulties I found were the physical location, it pretty far up under the dash, and the stupid clutch in to start switch whose bracket is totally in the way.
Oh and of course that switch is not shown in the ford manual. arty:
Thanks for the reply!
Ahh a 90 degree 'pick' that would be the ticket. I assume by pre-load you mean getting fluid in it beforehand? Any tricks to that?
sorry can't as I didn't do it. took me about 2.5 hours to do it the one time that I have. Prob could do it in about 1.5 hours next time I need to.
other tricks: (that I can remember)
-u-joints are your friends
-there is no good way to reach the CMC, do some stretching before hand.
- if you find a way to get the sensor out of the way without bending let me know lol
Got the clips off- a dentist type pick tool is the ticket.
I've gravity bleed it twice now and flushed damn near 48 ounces of fluid- still no freaking peddle pressure.
I changed mine at 60k miles .. and i needed to change my floor mate since the master was leaking durring winter so i saw the leak when the brake light come on .
Yea I will trying a different method next time for sure.
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