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E36General discussion and technical help for (E36) 1992-1999 3 series cars. 318, 323, 325, 328.
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Your Ride: 97' 328i
speed bump troubles
Hey, just trying to figure out what happened under my car. I scraped the bottom of my car on a speed bump the other day. right after I started loosing clutch pressure. a day layer... theres nothing its dead!! Any ideas?
As I recall. the clutch fluid line is just about level with the bottom of the transmission on the driver side. I can imagine that a speed bump (or several) could scuff it enough to make it leak, though I have never heard of this happening.
What worries me is that I think this car's clutch fluid is shared with the brake fluid, no? If so, you have bigger worries than no clutch.
If the clutch fluid is pulling from the brake reservoir, and a bunch of it leaked out, you may be very low on brake fluid. In stop and go traffic, it is the 'stop' part that is the most important!
Of course, with no clutch, it is pretty tough to get going so you need to stop. Can be done though. I once made it home 120 miles with no clutch release in a Volvo. You have to plan your route to avoid uphill stop lights. People tend to honk at you when you push your car to get it rolling at stop lights.
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Your Ride: 1994 BMW 525i, 1987 325is, 1986 325
Manolito is right on. There's also a small rubber line going from the bottom of the brake master cylinder to the clutch slave cylinder (it attaches to the metal line coming out of the top of the slave cylinder at a tab on the drivers side firewall under the car near the transmission). That rubber line can fail, the slave cylinder itself can fail (mine did and I had to replace it). Find the leak, replace the part(s) top the brake fluid in the master cylinder, bleed the clutch system (and possibly the brakes depending on how low it got), recheck/fill the brake fluid and test it.
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10-24-2010, 10:02 PM
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