A few weeks ago the clutch pedal went to the floor and lost pressure, and was not able to get into gear. If I pumped the pedal a few times quickly I could make it happen and drove it home... hydraulic issue, right? Replaced the master and slave cylinders (did not get the pre bled unit, doh) and spent quite a while trying to bleed them. Ended up taking them off the vehicle to bleed properly, but already had the slave cylinder extended (broke the plastic retaining clips), so I'm assuming this was why it didn't bleed properly and it would grind going in and out of 1st and reverse. So I took off the slave cylinder to try and bleed with the cylinder compressed. Two questions:

How much play or movement should there be in the throwout bearing fork? It is rather sloppy and I can lift it and drop it with my finger in the cylinder seat by reaching inside the opening for the slave cylinder... is this a cause for concern?

Can I purchase a new plastic tip for the end of the slave cylinder? I lost that sucker in the bell housing removing the cylinder today... do I REALLY need the plastic end?

Thanks!

 

You must use the all in one unit system that's it.
You could have a bad clutch or bearing

 

Ended up splitting it anyway to see what was going on... throwout bearing was broken on the bottom so the clutch was not fully disengaging and that destroyed the transmission bearing retainer that the throwout bearing slides on to as well. Makes sense now why there was way too much play on the fork. Slave cylinder was most likely not even an issue.