garydebergerac
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Hey all,
I've been spending a bit looking through these forums so I think I know what my problem is, but just to be sure...
Recently, I started getting a lot of vibration when taking off in 1st, entire dashboard shaking kind of vibration. Yesterday, it suddenly became very, very difficult to get into 1st gear, and almost impossible into reverse without a fair amount of grinding.
Everything I am seeing so far is telling me slave cylinder and/or clutch damper, and I've seen several posts that say replace the master cylinder at the same time, so I'll plan on that. Clutch was replaced about 80,000Kms ago, so I can't imagine that the shifting problems are related to the clutch itself.
But when looking around under the hood today, I noticed this first picture, which is of the hose that leads to the slave cylinder. A section of it has been replaced with a flexible tubing (although it sort of looks factory installed) and there seems to be a little leak there. In the second picture, its easy to see that there is a fair amount of fluid around the slave cylinder, but I am wondering if its just this tube leaking and then getting sprayed onto the side of the motor, where it drips down and collects on the slave cylinder.
The weird thing is that the master cylinder reservoir is pretty much full.
Obviously replacing the tube and bleeding would be easier than replacing everything, but what do you guys think?
I've been spending a bit looking through these forums so I think I know what my problem is, but just to be sure...
Recently, I started getting a lot of vibration when taking off in 1st, entire dashboard shaking kind of vibration. Yesterday, it suddenly became very, very difficult to get into 1st gear, and almost impossible into reverse without a fair amount of grinding.
Everything I am seeing so far is telling me slave cylinder and/or clutch damper, and I've seen several posts that say replace the master cylinder at the same time, so I'll plan on that. Clutch was replaced about 80,000Kms ago, so I can't imagine that the shifting problems are related to the clutch itself.
But when looking around under the hood today, I noticed this first picture, which is of the hose that leads to the slave cylinder. A section of it has been replaced with a flexible tubing (although it sort of looks factory installed) and there seems to be a little leak there. In the second picture, its easy to see that there is a fair amount of fluid around the slave cylinder, but I am wondering if its just this tube leaking and then getting sprayed onto the side of the motor, where it drips down and collects on the slave cylinder.
The weird thing is that the master cylinder reservoir is pretty much full.
Obviously replacing the tube and bleeding would be easier than replacing everything, but what do you guys think?