Thread: Change clutch/ Car only coast

Ok so Joel and Jeff did a clutch swap on his 2001 VET B15. Everything went in fine. He starts the car and rolls back. Cool everything is ok. Then he puts it in first gear and car bearly moves at all. Ok forgot to bleed the clutch. So now we get to bleeding the clutch. Great almost done. Sike!!! Someone forgot to put the slave cylinder on the little spot it goes in on the fork. So its stiff as fuck (thats what she said)we open the line back up to try and push the cylinder back. Ok great! Did the whole bleeding thing again and well...... Car still does not move under pedal power but the car coast on its own. Its a slow coast but none the less it moves. You can give it gas all day and it just wont pick up speed. I can put it in any gear and give it no gas from a dead stop and it wont even stall out!! So we put it up on jackstands and put it in gear and give it gas. Same thing. Speedo bearly moves but as i change gears and give it more gas it starts to pick up speed a lil till i got to the top of 3rd. Then it started picking up speed like it should have. Put it back on the ground and car wont pick up speed at all. It almost feels like a slipping clutch.

We have tried everything and really dont know what else to do. We bled the shit out of it and tried several methods. FSM the write ups on this forum and even used my ALLDATA program i have at my shop. They all pretty much say the same thing.. Now my question is. Could the slave cylinder have been damage when they bled it and it was not connected to the fork? The pedal still has really strong pedal feel to it so i dont think its leaking nowhere and it kept its pressure for several days when he left the car at my shop. COuld we possibly have a wrong clutch? i really dont see how since everything lined up. joel said that the between space between the disk and the Pressure plate seem a lil far. I dont know if he was talking about the fingers on the PP where really far apart or what not. Maybe he will chime in....

HELP US OUT!

As soon as you open the bleed valve the slave is all the way out. Unbolt the slave cyl from the gearbox, is it still under heaps of load? If so, maybe the clutch fork or release bearing is in wrong. If its all loose, then must be something wrong with the clutch, wrong parts or something.

The slave cylinder was unbolted and pushed back in to get it into the arm.

But, would the piston in the slave cylinder go bad that fast?

I'm probably going to have to put the old clutch back in and see if everything's fine.

I hope not. We gotta figure this out. Your car cant be sitting at the shop for months again lmao

Don't worry, when I put the stock clutch back in, I'll be driving it back home. Besides, I'm past due for emissions.

if it's an old slave, sometimes when you put the new clutch in. the seal gets destroied (sp) when the piston slides over the old area inside the slave. it would be worth while to atleast pull it off and check the center bore of the slave first for crusties pits and what not.

yeah but if it was damaged in any way wouldnt it have sighs of it leaking break fluid?

Any idea is all slave cylinders are the same?

probally but it could be inside the lil' boot. same goes for the master cylinder. it would just like a bad brake master cylinder where the fluid just bypasses instead of pushing into the lines.

but when you have a bad booster or so you lose pressure through your pedal right? so shouldnt the clutch pedal be losing pressure to?