bleeder bolt is on the slave cylinder on the front of the transmission. it's the bulky thing sticking out.

 

well if its leaking out close to the passenger wheel it might also be that soft line leaking.... simply follow the line off the slave cylinder and follow it. there should be a soft to hard line right along the frame rail. it might also be just loose or maybe the threads are leaking... if its tight then get some kinda thread sealer... i typically use the teflon tape on the threads and then screw it back in tightly... it could just be leaking around the threads when they did the swap from them not sealing the threads.... its not always needed but i do it for a precaution when messing with brake lines and fuel lines.

 

I just checked out the slave cylinder and its not leaking from there. I put some cardboard uner it to see where its leaking and it more towards the center of the bay. The oil over near the wheel well must have just been spilt or something, cleaned it up and nothing else showed up. I might just take it to my local shop tomorrow and get it on a lift and have a good look. The guy also failed to mention the horn was wired up, which is needed for my state inspection for out-of-state vehicles. Small things always hit the pocket.

 

So it turns out to be about a $5 problem. haha. Got it on a lift today for my new exhaust and I find out its just anti-freeze leaking. The guy who did the swap connected 2 cut hoses with a beat up peice of aluminum pipe with some crappy clamps. So I just picked up a rubber bushing connector and am going to fix it up later. Its going to be warm tomorrow so pics will be up after I wash it up.

 

that's good, but now you still have a problem with the clutch.

too bad it wasn't a leaky slave cylinder... that would have been an easy cheap fix to the leak and the clutch problem.

inspect the master cylinder where it connects to the clutch pedal arm and look for leaks in the area. also look around the slave cylinder.

 

Yeah, I looked around some and didnt see any leaks. The shop I go to told me to just bleed the system out. The clutch hasnt done that again. It did it on the way home from buying it and it freaked me out a little, but its been fine since then. So ill bleed it just for good measure.

 

ya could just be some water in the lines which could have froze causing issues like that in the lines. simply bleed should do the trick.

 

yea i would do a flush rather than just bleed it though.
basically, buy a bottle of DOT3 or DOT4 brake fluid (I like prestone synthetic) and what you do is you bleed it by loosening the bleed bolt, pumping the clutch pedal, and adding brake fluid to the clutch reservoir so that the level doesn't get below the MIN line, and then continue until the new clean fluid is what's coming out of the bleed bolt. Then fill up the reservoir to the top, and give the clutch pedal a couple last pumps to bring the level down under the max mark, and then close the bleed bolt (not too tight, it can break). Then slowly fill to the max line.

 

yeah, and when you bleed it, make sure you have someone helping you
you can do it by yourself, but...it's a lot easier to have someone man the clutch pedal and someone man the bleeder screw

Also, as said before, if that still doesn't work, I replaced both my slave and master clutch cylinders within the past...month or so? I'm very new to cars and mechanics, I did it with the help of my step-dad. Easy peasy.

The cylinders were like $100 together from autozone

 

Ok. Im going to bleed this weekend. If anything else comes up im going to replace master and slave cylinders....probly do it for safe measure sometime soon anyway. But last night someone decided to run a stop sign and take off my front bumper and dent my drivers fender and then speed off. So now I get to spend money on body parts.