*** it. As much as I have to do it, I'm taking it to a shop on Monday. I can't get in there with the tools I have.

 

Dude...I did this job in the parking lot of my old apartment, 2 weeks after I bought my Miata. You can do it.

 

Don't get me wrong, I really want to get this done without taking it to a shop, but I can't seem to get enough room to work. I thought I might be able to get to the top nut with a socket extension and get the bottom one using something like this because of the weird angle. Did you go in through the top, or behind the passengers side wheel?

 

Pretty sure I worked from the wheel well.

 

Dude serious


Use a closed wrench. One that has a sloghtly angled head. I did it with one socan you.

If youcant, just think about how mich better i am than you

 

Oh, it pains me to say it, but Faeflora is correct. Closed end wrench, and smack it with a mallet to break it loose. Once it's loose, you can use your fingers to get it out. Hardest part of the whole thing is getting the line reconnected without cross threading it.

 

I ------- did that ---- with the shittiest and cheapest harbor freight wrenches when I picked up my Miata, Gearhead. If Fae can do it, and if I can do it with harbor freight crap in a parking lot, you can do it.

P.S. Get a damn clutch line so you never have to go through this annoyance again.

 

Yes yes YESSSS


HIT WITH HAMMMER

That is how i tightened the bolt back up too.

 

Let's see. Joined Dec. 2010. 3000+ posts. I think I see the issue.

Post less. Work on car more.

 

+1

Changing the slave is a fairly simple procedure. Just keep at it.

 

I'll keep at it, for now.

 

You need a stubby ratcheting wrench that bends. I forget if those bolts are 12mm or 10mm, so something like this. With the correct one you get the bottom one from below and the top one with a 6 inch extension on the end of a socket.

 

I thought about that. If I can't get it tonight (in the garage) and I don't get completely frustrated and take it to a shop, then I'll totes pick up something like that from HF.

 

Your username has "Gearhead" in it. You must carry on and follow through with self-recovery from this fail, or we may have to change your userid

 

How about "Shearhead"?

 

It's gonna be alright guys...he listens to Slayer...

 

Its an ironic username. When I buy a V8 miata, will that count as a recovery? "Bought NOT Built"

lol'd

Its one of the only way to feel manly whist driving a Japanese chick car.

 

IIRC, I did that one by laying on my back and reaching in from underneath and behind.

--Ian

(and yeah, "that's what she said!")

 

I swear if you lived near me I'd do this for you, at the cost of a beer. However, I apparently suck at bleeding. I swear I can never get it right. Need to get a pressure bleeder from TrackSpeed and stop sucking at life.

 

lower bolt, easiest from below with a ring spanner