If it's not one f'n thing it's another!

I woke up today in a good mood, sat down and figured out my finances for the next couple of months and made a few phone calls to make arrangements for other bills so that they would be paid and caught up within that time frame. Then I heard from someone (patterson353) that they had a set of tires already mounted on wheels that I could use until I got mine. I say great and go get them thinking wow this day just keeps getting better.

I get home and put them on with little problem, considering I was doing it outside on snow covered frozen ground and having to use a scissor jack for the front ones since my hydraulic wouldn't fit under the car where it was. I get them on, hook up the brand new battery I just bought and get in and verify that the battery is charged and that I have power, which I do. I think to myself, as Al Pacino says in Scent of a woman, "you're riding with one very happy man" because I have been on a roll all day with everything going my way. I situated myself in the cockpit to fire the car up, one hand on the steering wheel, one hand on the ignition, place one foot on the brake then............as I put my other foot on the clutch it slams hard on the floorboard as the clutch pedal falls to the floor. BAM. The jolt it sends through my foot and lower leg, along with the sound of hitting the floorboard so hard snaps me back quickly into reality from the fantasy world that I have been in all day. WTF!!!! You have got to be kidding me!

After a few seconds of trying to convince myself that maybe I just missed the clutch pedal and kicking my leg up and down (like a dog that is being scratched on the back) to no avail, I finally realized that is was no use. I get out of the car and look under the dash and I see the pedal. Laying down on the job like an old man that forgot to take his viagra.

The last time I started it a few weeks ago everything was fine. The pedal felt just like it should, but now its just on the floor. I checked the clutch master cylinder and it is dry. How does that happen? The only thing that I can think of is that the last time I pushed the clutch in that maybe a seal or something let loose. The slave cylinder is basically brand new. It has probably only 2K or so on it since it was installed.

I filled up the reservoir and pumped the pedal by hand about 30 times and still nothing. I started the car and let it run for about 20 minutes, thinking/hoping that maybe enough moisture got in there somehow from it sitting for about 8 months that maybe it iced up and would thaw out from the heat of the engine, but no dice. By this time it's dark outside and I give up messing with it before I start getting really mad and decide to jump back into it tomorrow.

Damn man that sucks!!!! I have an extra clutch resivor if it turns out that is the problem. Could you see it leaking anywhere?

I couldn't really see cause it was too dark and I didn't want to get my light and mess with it any more.

Damn I had the same thing happen to the galant

What was wrong with it?

Mine is the slave, I rebuilt it instead of buying a new one. It does it when ever I let it sit too long. I normally just re bleed the clutch and it good for awhile.

I misspoke earlier; The master cylinder is what I replaced last not the slave. I don't know what I was thinking when I wrote that.

Anyway, thanks to mitsu90 for giving me a hand in bleeding the clutch. As of 5pm the Talon was mobile. Took it out for a drive around a couple of blocks and everything seemed to be working like it should. Shifting was smooth (although perhaps a little too smooth), acceleration was smooth and steady, and doesn't seem to be suffering any ill effects from sitting out in the elements for so long. Saturday will be more of a test though when I take it out on the road and get some miles on it at highway speeds.

I imagine that a new slave cylinder is going to be needed though. Hopefully it will be able to wait until it gets warmer. Working outside in this weather sucks.

Glad I could help bring one back from the dead.. Although a 10mm would have kicked ass

OH COME ON!

Got the car running pretty good after putting fresh gas in it and got the new sticker so I am legal now. I get all excited about being able to drive my car again and that lasted all of about 10 min. After leaving the gas station and the car settling down once the fresh gas worked its way through I went to the bank to pay off a loan and hit a pot hole pulling in and broke the rear left strut. I drove it less than 5 miles before it broke.

I will say it again, I can't seem to catch a f'n break.

Hopefully you didn't bend a wheel!!! lol

You gotta be kidding me..

Nope, wheels are fine. That is the first thing I checked when I got out lol. The first thing I thought when I hit it and then heard noise is "oh shit the tire blew out and I'm driving on the wheel"

DOH!

wow, if not for bad luck some of us would have none at all