Triumph Repair: Adding fluid for clutch, clutch master cylinder, clutch fluid

Question
The clutch fluid in my TR-6 is very low and the clutch is not working when I push it in. So I figure I should just add more DOT4 brake fluid. Is it as simple as adding the fluid and the clutch hopefully will work? Do I have to pump the clutch or anything like that?
Thanks. As you can tell, I don't really know what I'm doing.

Answer
Hi Blake,

When you are low on fluid air enters the system through the master cylinder and that is why you loose pedal. Sometimes you can just add fluid and pump the pedal several times with long slow strokes and if you gain the pedal back you are ok (for a while until the fluid leaks out again)
If the fluid was low, it went somewhere and that is usually on the ground due to a leak. (in the case on a TR-7 it leaks into the bell housing)

If the pedal does not return by pumping the pedal then you need to try bleeding the system at the slave cylinder (mounted in the bell housing)

Most of the time when fluid is lost it means the seals are leaking and you should rebuild or replace both the clutch master cylinder and the slave cylinder because if one is bad, the other is not far behind it.

Howard