Adam Poland

Just making sure. Yesterday, I was driving, and when I went to hit the clutch pedal, it sprung to the floor, no resistance. I coasted into a nearby parking lot, and there was clutch fluid laying on the ground. This is the slave cylinder right? Any chance of this messing up the clutch?

Black51

Is there any fluid on the starter? If there's a whole bunch on that then, ya it's most likely the slave. I think the only thing that would ensue after a catastrophically failed slave cylinder is your clutch will be always engaged to the flywheel.

Adam Poland

Yeah its all over the starter and exhaust. So all this should be is just a matter of replacing it and the fluid right? And yeah, the clutch is always engaged. Thanks for clearing that up.

minho78

Adam it could be the hose also, you have to check it. It should be fairly easy. I just did the slave on my Nissan maxima. It took me Aproximately 30 minutes with bleeding. 944 are a litlebit harder from what I heard. Make sure you disconnect the battery just in case you hit the starter leads. Good luck

Black51

Ya, start with the straight forward and cheap stuff first, since the cheap stuff tends to go first, then go from there. Might be a good idea to change both the slave and the line since it's all pretty simple stuff, then both those things aren't ?'s anymore.

Adam Poland

Very valid points. For a second i forgot I was working on a 951, where anything is possible.

Olli Snellman

No need to repalce the whole slave, just install new gaskets. I used 1987-1989 Mercedes W124 ones, cost was about $5.

Tay-Tay

Interesting, for $5 it's worth a try. Do check the hose, at 80K and 20+ years, mine was in bad shape.