This is my only transportation!!!!!!!!!!!!

My clutch isn't engaging AT ALL. I have to have the engine off to get it in gear and when I start it up. It's off and on it's way and doesn't want to stop if I put the clutch in and when I brake it's like I'm trying to do a brake stand burn out.

BACKROUND STORY TO MY PROBLEM
Monday I started to replace three wheel studs for the rear passenger side that had snapped off. So the car was up on a jack stand on that corner. Now I was finely able to get this done last night (Friday), after finely getting the hub nut off and renting a puller. I have no idea if the below zero degree weather has anything to do with it at all and being up tilted in the cold for a week did anything. THE CLUTCH WAS PERFECTLY FINE on monday before I started. Could it be just some fluid?

Check the fluid, bleed the system and see if that helps. I had a similiar probelm with my clutch not engaging unless I had the engine off....turns out the morons that replaced my clutch didn't bleed the system properly when they were done.

Best of luck

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Nick www.naskie18.com AIM: Naskie182010

[This message has been edited by naskie18 (edited 01-24-2004).]

Also check that the clutch lever (the one on the transmission) isn't broken. The original lever was made of sheet steel and was prone to cracking.

Check Ogre's cave for more hints, like how to tell if the clutch pedal is bent.

Sorry I freacked first, I just added fluid and it's fine. I just must have a slow leak somewhere and it just happened to show up when I was already annoyed and negative about trying to get the hub nut off.

Thank You

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DiZZI

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Pull back the carpet under the clutch pedal and look for fluid running out of the back of the master into the carpet padding.

JazzMan