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clutch pedal to floor


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97 Boxster, 5 speed, US 2.5 engine

Problem: The obvious problem was that the slave cylinder blew and dumped fluid all over my garage. Okay, to mechanic i go. New slave cylinder. works fairly well, temporarily, then next morning pedal goes to floor and stays there. Leak in master. Replaced that. Bled it. and bled it. had wrong kind of bleeder, got a pressure unit. bled it. it would actually change gears...but only with pedal absolutely flat on floor.

Took to a different mech who specializes in imports (tho not typically porsches) He bled it.....everything looks like its supposed to, no leaks, no bubbles in line....but still, only works if flat on floor. And getting it into reverse and first is...a matter of holding your mouth just right.

Speculating that slave cylinder is defective. maybe because we can't come up with anything better. Thoughts?

HELP???

Thanks.

And YES it's hot here, i just missed the only top down weather that's really nice until october.

Stan

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Was it bleed properly?

The proper method is to hold the pedal to the floor and bleed. Then very slowly raise the pedal by hand. If the system is working properly then it should work as normal after the proper bleeding - if not, then you still have a problem.

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Was it bleed properly?

The proper method is to hold the pedal to the floor and bleed. Then very slowly raise the pedal by hand. If the system is working properly then it should work as normal after the proper bleeding - if not, then you still have a problem.

Finally made it through. The first mech most likely bled it properly. The second one, who has a good bit of training in mercedes/volks vehicles----bled it too....no change. Put in a different slave....no change. Then he pulled the tranny.

result: the ...fork? lever? that physically moves the clutch was cracked across completely on one side, cracked slightly on the other, and bent enough that it would no longer physically move the clutch as far as needed. Got a new one (piece of metal, bout twelve inches or so long, with a pressure point on each end and a square cutout in the middle)....one side of that (rolled steel at that) was broken completely in two. Went ahead, installed new clutch/pressure plate, it was all out and available anyway. he put it back together....works beautifully now. 97 boxster, 80m miles. still some wear left on clutch, no scoring on flywheel...if that piece of metal had completely broken i think it might have gummed up the works a bit.

just nice to have back. Don't know how common this is, didn't know what it was until we had it pulled apart so you could actually look.

Okay. Now i save money for a while.

Grin.

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