Hey guys/girls,

Have just found my clutch master cylinder leaking inside around pedal box. This is annoying because I replaced it in late December '03 when I replaced clutch . I'd just like to know is there anything I could have done that has wrecked this. I have the clutch adjusted so it starts to contact flywheel after only about 1 inch from the floor, Taking up this early, that couldn't have caused this to happen could it? Shouldn't when the clutch pedal is fully released the clevis and piston will be at start of stroke..i.e resting on the end stop as when master cylinder is off vehicle with no force on it.

The brand is:
"Top Performance" in blue box with a couple of elephants on it..I paid $85 from a local place that usually sells decent gear.

Anybody had similar experience..it is going through a fair bit of fluid, I wonder if it is still under warranty

[Updated on: Sat, 03 April 2004 23:01]

And the seals gone hard.. yeah that sounds very possible, you think for corollas they'd move quite a few of them. I'm going down in the morning to show it to them and hopefully get another one. I just don't want to replace it again and find the next does the same after a little while . Anybody used these "Top performance" with elephants on packet. They sell clutch and brake parts, and install so you wouldn't think they would sell crap.

Cheers

[Updated on: Sun, 04 April 2004 08:18]

Thanks everyone. I just finished pulling out the MC , they said they'd replace it but only after they checked mine was leaking..so I'll have my car offroad tommorrow while I swap it and install. I don't know if I could get money back. I do still have the original toyota one, but the problem with that wasn't that it was just leaking, when I installed new clutch we couldn't get rid of the air in system...we traced it to MS, so I'm not sure if it is beyond repair.

PS The one they're giving me this time hasn't got elephants on the box..maybe they had probs with that brand . There's a shitload of fluid around the pedal box, and by the way AE82 pedal boxes are a bit of a prick to work with. Gave the GE an oil change while I was dirty so hopefully will have it back on road tommorrow night.. Getting lifts to work with mum ain't that cool!

Thanks for helping and listening to my fairly trivial prob

[Updated on: Mon, 05 April 2004 10:41]