EP3 Clutch Hydraulic woes

[agentsmith]

Hi all,

hope someone can offer some advice here.

My EP3 is used only as a track car, car had been laid up for a few months over christmas after some work by a garage to fit new sump baffle etc.It hadn't been off the trailer when it went out the other week. The clutch only actuated (hydraulically) at the bottom of the pedal range when trying to get it off the trailer (had been fine before). Still had a good day mind, and it behaved otherwise.

I then tried to change the clutch fluid which was grey/black, and gloopy in the reservoir, I drew a load out and tried to flush through with new. The pedal wasn't working at all now. I suspected faulty master cylinder, so replaced that, and now I am suffering with pedal going straight to the floor. I've had someone sit the in car (2 man approach to bleeding), and i've tried a pressure-bleeder too (modified the filler cap to accept the air line). But frankly the amount of fluid coming out for me seems very small. It doesn't flow out unless pedal being actuated and is not pushing much even with 20psi of pressure from pressure bleeder.

Wondering whether some debris has ended up in the slave or the pipe and is somehow constricting things. Anything else to look at before I go and buy a new slave cylinder and line too?

thanks a lot for any advice, and sorry for the long explanation

[krismccloy]

Probably not much help, But have had plenty of friends with Honda's and with similar issues and it was always down to their method of bleeding.

https://type-r-owners.co.uk/forums/showthread.php?...

Just an example from a quick search, plenty of others have same issues.

Edited by krismccloy on Tuesday 8th May 10:33

[agentsmith]

just for benefit of anyone else. It had a decent airlock in it. Got a mobile engineer to come out and have a look and he pulled the slave off the clutch, and with it facing upwards the airlock cleared easily....