Reply to "Clutch Pedal Acting Up"

My favorite subject!!

Dark fluid is a sign of the seals breaking down. It has nothing to do with any hoses downstream as the fluid acts a solid column and only moves back and forth a bit. My OE style masters (all 3 of them) would start getting dark within 100 miles. There were also solids in the fluid, not a good sign. A Wilwood clutch master has resolved that problem and the lovely leaking bottle problem.

My recent bleeding problem was solved by realizing that I did not get the arm/spline orientation correct when putting things back together. What I thought was air/no pedal, was really just the system using up a bunch of free play. Fixed that, no problem now. I did waste a bunch of brake fluid and brain cells sorting that one out!!! (It did force my wife to get into the Pantera to help with bleeding!)

My recommendation - stay away from any Pantera vendor parts that hold/use fluids!!

3/14/2412:40 PM

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