Hey guys, so I'm at a stop today, with clutch pedal depressed, and in gear. When suddendly, BOOM, car dies, clutch pedal stays on floor. I pushed it off the road, and looked under the car. The plate that the slave cylinder pushes against (don't know the name of it) just wiggles back and forth, and I can hear something clanking inside. I don't have the money to fix it. What do you guys suggest I do with it. Is it worth parting out? Do you think anyone would buy it the way it is? It's got 150XXX miles and ran great. Let me know what you guys think. Thanks.

 

Search a mechanic in your local craigslist, you can usually find someone that will fix it pretty cheap if you realy want to keep it. Not alot of people will buy a car that old that does not run unless its like 300 bucks

 

Damn man sad to hear, somebody might buy it as is, but they would just probably want to know whats wrong with it, Good Luck on whatever you do...

 

put a ad up on Craigslist, backyard mechanics will do sidework for cheap. or keep it as a project and replace the tranny yourself over time

 

Why so I have a feeling the longer bolts and stripped threads mentioned here may have something to do with this?

 

"RIP" means your car was obliterated in an accident, or at least it should.. Buck up and fix it.

 

Dollars to doughnuts you're spot on.

Yes. the 3rd gen Max is sexy as all hell. This thing is not dead, just needs a little work (worst case...new manual tranny?, not that expensive considering the alternatives)

 

Lvr the slave was still in place and did not move at all. I'm guessing it was adjusted wrong or aomething. About 2 minutes before it happened I was thinking man there smeems to be a ton of pressure in the clutch pedal. Could the new master have been just way out of adjustment? BTW it looks like my father is going to buy it and attempt to fix it. Anybody got any ideas as to what might have broke in there?

 

Guess its possible ................... but the car "died" when this happened? ................ not sure how anything clutch related will kill the motor - sure sounds like a rb failure that may indeed be as a result of an improperly adjusted pedal pin in the MC (causing the rb not to release/separate from the pressure plate forks

I sure wont scrap a car for anything clutch related

 

Sounds as if ur clutch fork broke or the clutch exploded. Take it apart & inspect to see what really happened.

 

Pressure plate failure or TOB failure! I'm sure you have a $20-$30 TOB failure due to a seized bearing and you can't fix that? Where are you located?

 

Ding ding ding

I'm going to go out on a limb and say the tabs on the TOB sheared off/broke. Exact same thing has happened to me

 

im saving you clutch cylinder failed and it engaged the clutch and killed the car. Super simple fix from the sounds of it.

 

I was expecting to hear that you got hit buy a Mack Truck or something???

 

I have to agree with Cmax and James on this one. Something happened to one of you engagement parts in the bell housing.

 

Thats messed up. Hes not Rotaryhead. lol.