Hyundai Repair: 1998 hyundia accent standart 5 speed., worn clutch, cluch


Question
There is almost 200,000k's on this car trans grinds slighly if your hurry it into reverse and hard to go into 1st or any other forward gear unless you depress the clutch a few times. At one time there was no pedal but the slave cydlinder was leaking, so the seal was replaced and the system bleed. The cluch seemed fine for a couple of months. Now it is back to the same thing, but the cluth fluid is right up in the resivoir. Also the clutch starts to engauge as soon as you start to release the cluch pedal, there seems to be lots of pressure on the pedal and no air in the line.(does this sound like its time for a new cluth???)

Answer
Your clutch itself is probably still in good condition.  A worn clutch will cause the clutch to engage/disengage near the top of the pedal stroke.

More likely is that you need to rebleed the clutch hydraulic system.  It's very hard to bleed these and get all the air out.  I've had the most success using a vacuum pump to suck the fluid out of the slave cylinder bleeder into a reservoir.