hydraulic failure
 

well coming home from girlfriends tonight, noticed getting into first gear was much more difficult than normal, got worse, then tougher to shift into 2nd, then 3rd got notchy. Limped it home , looked in the clutch fluid reservoir and it's empty:vash: . Looked under the car nothing dripping on the ground but significant wetness on the transmission. good thing i was doing a clutch soon.:ugh2: weird to happen suddenly like that

did your slave leak out? Pretty normal miata thing.

probably i haven't looked under the car yet, it's no big deal really just annoying

Definately sounds like a dead slave.... They are pretty cheap to replace, and even cheaper if you want to go with a rebuild kit.....

Should be about 1/2 hr to replace. Pull the right front, get the hard line loose (don't ask ... yes do this first).... then pull the two 14mm or 12 mm bolts holding the slave. Replace..... reinstall. Bleed clutch.

Dave,

Look at the bright side: You get to practice rev matching. Only problem is turning off the engine to come to a stop and starting with the starter motor tends to wear out other components.

And; you've got to plan your routes so you always stop on a downhill slope:ugh2:

BTDT when I was a kid in a clunker.

might want to try replacing the MC while your at it...

same thing happened to me the night before an autox. missed the race, cam home and refilled/bled it, it's been fine since. That was about a year ago. weird.

Seriously. Contrary to the popular belief that the master rarely goes, my slave went and my master followed in a couple of weeks. It happened to five other people that I know of recently.

While the slave is the difficult one to replace and the master is easy, if it happens to me on another Miata, I will do them both at the same time.

When I replaced the master, the worst part was pulling the new slave off and making sure that no shit had gotten into it(turned it upside down in a pan of fluid and pumped out some sediment)before re-bleeding the system.

yeah i plan on doing both with a stainless clutch line

Out of all the slaves that have gone, I've only known one master to go yet....

Instead, I've seen a melted brake master from the turbo instead though. <G>

Dave,

I rebuilt my slave for the hell of it. I was adjusting the freeplay and figured why not save me the trouble down the road incase it fails.