This is sort of a long story, but the points of it have merit potentially. 1996 Passat tdi with 260k. I've had it for 60k.
I'll try to make the story short: my brakes started working poorly Thursday afternoon, Friday morning they were worse, after I got to work on Friday I checked fluid level and it was really low. Front right caliper was leaking. I filled the fluid. Brakes were working ok. Saturday morning I found the bleeder screw to be leaking fluid, I worked it in and out and then bled the brake. The brakes were normal. 5 miles later I was backing in to a parking spot and then could not get out of reverse. Thought linkage got jammed, so I turned off the car and pulled it out of gear fine. Went to leave and after starting the car I could not get it in to gear. Turned car off, pressed clutch and put in to gear. Started car and it was seemingly fine, could not get out of gear though.
The clutch is sort of working. It is like there is an air bubble in the line, but since Friday the reservoir has been quite full. I have bled the slave with no luck. I vacuum bled from the slave (or tried to) with a friends bleeder tool. I manually bled it again. I cracked the master cylinder pressure line and only fluid came out. I have ran a lot of fluid through the system while bleeding so far. I pulled the slave cylinder and nothing looked out of the ordinary, the fork in the bell housing feels normal. It feels like the clutch has worked almost enough at some points, still can't get in to or out of gear, but when running the car won't pull forward with the pedal pressed and in gear. Now the clutch is not releasing much at all and the car will move when started (feels like that has gotten worse).
I cannot hear anything out of the ordinary when pressing the clutch with engine running or off, so it sounds like the actual internal bell housing parts are functioning normally. I have tried bleeding the system with no luck. I can't see an obvious issue with the slave cylinder. Anyone have something obvious I'm missing? Next steps I suppose are finding a different bleeding system, replacing the slave and/or master cylinder, and then of course worst case scenario...
I'll try to make the story short: my brakes started working poorly Thursday afternoon, Friday morning they were worse, after I got to work on Friday I checked fluid level and it was really low. Front right caliper was leaking. I filled the fluid. Brakes were working ok. Saturday morning I found the bleeder screw to be leaking fluid, I worked it in and out and then bled the brake. The brakes were normal. 5 miles later I was backing in to a parking spot and then could not get out of reverse. Thought linkage got jammed, so I turned off the car and pulled it out of gear fine. Went to leave and after starting the car I could not get it in to gear. Turned car off, pressed clutch and put in to gear. Started car and it was seemingly fine, could not get out of gear though.
The clutch is sort of working. It is like there is an air bubble in the line, but since Friday the reservoir has been quite full. I have bled the slave with no luck. I vacuum bled from the slave (or tried to) with a friends bleeder tool. I manually bled it again. I cracked the master cylinder pressure line and only fluid came out. I have ran a lot of fluid through the system while bleeding so far. I pulled the slave cylinder and nothing looked out of the ordinary, the fork in the bell housing feels normal. It feels like the clutch has worked almost enough at some points, still can't get in to or out of gear, but when running the car won't pull forward with the pedal pressed and in gear. Now the clutch is not releasing much at all and the car will move when started (feels like that has gotten worse).
I cannot hear anything out of the ordinary when pressing the clutch with engine running or off, so it sounds like the actual internal bell housing parts are functioning normally. I have tried bleeding the system with no luck. I can't see an obvious issue with the slave cylinder. Anyone have something obvious I'm missing? Next steps I suppose are finding a different bleeding system, replacing the slave and/or master cylinder, and then of course worst case scenario...