Help, what leak is this?

[WItoTX]

Slave cylinder. But might as well check for fluid where the clutch line goes into the master cylinder.

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[SheepDog]

Just drove car out to get the car on a lift... Nothing I could see that was obvious leaking other than the front of that transmission housing in my pics. So I convinced myself it was the transmission but it's so tight in space I couldn't see over the transmission.

I left to get gas and after filling, my clutch isn't coming back up.... What does that say? Brake reservoir has fluid (at least when I checked yesterday). Would slave cylinder cause the clutch pedal not to come back?

I'm stranded now and debating if I should tow to the dealer to fix.

If the fluid is leaking directly out of the transmission bell housing, the Slave cylinder has failed. Replace the clutch while you are in there. Even if it isn't worn out, it is now saturated with brake fluid and is ruined.

 

[geep81]

I left to get gas and after filling, my clutch isn't coming back up.... What does that say? Brake reservoir has fluid (at least when I checked yesterday). Would slave cylinder cause the clutch pedal not to come back?

You need a new slave cylinder, yours has shit the bed.

Mine shit the bed last year. It cost about $250 in parts and was $1000 labor from a Mustang specialty shop to drop the trans and replace.

While in there I also replaced the clutch. OEM clutch is a little over 2k for all the parts, I went with a McLeod RST for about $1200.

All in I spent about $2700 fixing this problem + new clutch. The failure happened out of the blue, at lunch it was fine, when going home from work that day it failed.

 

[gsrblack]

No specialty in aware of near me so I'm stuck at going to the freaking dealer.

 

[gsrblack]

I found a couple high performance shops but will they cost as much or more than dealer? Nobody can give me a good quote unless they diagnose it. I'm waiting for tow truck so I'm trying to research shops around me

 

[Gen 6 Mach1]

What Ford Dealership did you have it towed to .

 

[Cobra Jet]

Review this thread, it may be the issue too…

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/urgent-check-clutch-line-at-brake-master-cylinder.84132/

 

[WItoTX]

Review this thread, it may be the issue too…

https://www.mustang6g.com/forums/threads/urgent-check-clutch-line-at-brake-master-cylinder.84132/

Based on what he described, and a recent master cylinder failure on my car, I'm 99% certain that it's the slave. In my car, the master was leaking, and it dumped fluid behind the front driver's side wheel. Leaked all over below the master from the line going to the slave. A really odd pinhole leak in the plastic itself, not the line.

 

[NightmareMoon]

The pedal not lifting on it's own is a dead giveaway for the slave. Sometimes you can lift it with your foot and you can sometimes go a while just manually lifting it with your shoe.

Yeah replace the clutch while you're in there. Might as well.

 

[Garfy]

#3 gets my vote.

I agree, the fluid color does look like brake fluid. A leaking slave cylinder sounds very plausible since the leak is coming from the bell housing. I really hated it when Ford put the slave cylinder inside the bell housing instead of outside like all the Asian cars which makes servicing it so much easier. That's one reason why I opted for the A10 instead.

 

[gsrblack]

I ended up getting the car towed to a performance shop. I will find out today what the verdict is. They were adding fluid back in the brake fluid reservoir and getting pressure back to see how it holds as part of the diagnostics to see where it is leaking.

I'm thinking this will run me $3k or more to replace the CSC and clutch.... And probably with just a stage 1 clutch.

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