Drivetrain help Options

[celica3sgte]

My celi has been down for a few months b/c I live in an apartment and can't fix the problem. It started when I was driving along and felt some play in the clutch pedal before feeling any pressure. Over 3 days it got worse, and eventually to the point where I couldn't shift gears. Knowing this I brought the car to my friend's house. I started it in 2nd gear and drove there. I came to a red light, so I'm at astop in 2nd gear, with the clutch pedal pushed down. The damn clutch started to engage and the car nearly stalled. Now, when I start the car in gear with the clutch pedal down, I have to come off of the clutch, fading it to start it, which means that it's not disengaging when pressing the pedal. I thought it might be the clutch master cylinder, pressure plate, or I guess slave cylinder. I just removed my clutch cyl and I don't see any destroyed boots. I also have an mr2 tranny sitting here, but putting it on is gonna suck. Any thing else it could be, or what do you guys think?

[celica3sgte]

I just installed the new master cylinder and there is no change. One thing I noticed is that there is about 1" - 2" of play on the clutch pedal before there is pressure. There is a little pressure, but you can kick it or push it over an 1" before you feel the pressure. I left my slave cyl in ohio and my parents are shipping it down. I'm going to install it and see what happens.

Macavely, I don't know where the springs for the shift cables are. When the car is turned off, it goes into gear. When the car is running, you can move the shift knob, but not enough to smoothly go into gear. The clutch fork and slave cylinder piston do move, but it doesn't seem like too much. I measured it. little less than 3/8" total travel. I had DGperformance measure this for me before and they were the same but I thought they were both 5/8". If anyone feels like measuring the total throw on the clutch fork that would be great.