It is ironic that none of the mechanics noticed the loose clamp, although a visible inspection would not have revealed it, as there was no fluid leakage. Whether this was a source of air entering the system or it was never properly bled, I do not know. It has been several thousand miles now without further drama. After bleeding and fluid replacement, things seemed OK, except I did discover later that the apparently original OEM spring clamp on the line to the clutch master cylinder from the brake master cylinder had long lost its clamping ability. Ended up at a dealer this time, where the diagnosis was the system was full of air. More than a thousand miles later, the pedal went more than just spongy, but no leakage. Then the pedal got squirrely, so I had the newer clutch cylinder replaced. Then, the newer slave failed, leaking badly and stranding me. Then i cleaned it, scuffed it up the best i cound with 80 gritt, cleaned it, and applied seal-all/seam sealer from autozone.I am on on my second replacement clutch master and slave cylinders, first replacements came with high-mileage clutch kit upgrade to Exedy HD. I had to remove all the factory crap in the way that was covering the crack and go about a foot up in the dash to get it all visable. Use something like a metal coat hanger to clear out the drainage ports. Next I cleaned out the drain hole in the cowl under the fender liner on both sides the car. Click the two below video clip to see what was going on.Īnd here it is after it came completely out! I had to get this welded back into place as well. You can see in the below video as a result. The bracket that holds the clutch pedal was starting to apart from the location where we applied silicon. This is on the driver side right around the gauge clusterĮdit: The above location started leaking again a few thousand miles later. I then cut the water off, dried the area the best I could and applied some silicone. The water was shooting down the sound deadending, and out where the bolt hole is and down onto the clutch switch This is what the leak looked like on the inside on the driver side. I however it the water pool up as I currently don't have the carpet installed in my car and noticed the water swirling around these holes. I noticed a great deal of water coming in on my driver side floor board. Here on the driver side you can see me spraying water in the wiper cowl. Then the wiper cowl could come right off. First remove the caps off the wiper arms, unbolt the wiper arms (you will have to wiggle them off), remove the caps on each side of the wiper cowl and remove the two screws. The wiper cowl is held in my two screws and the wiper arms. I still have yet one more to find and ill update that once I correct that issue. First remove the wiper cowl as that’s where majority of my leaks were from but one. The next set of leaks are in the wiper cowl. My first leak was at the harness plug going into the cabin. you will never see that much water even with going through a car wash. NOTE: Keep in mind I have a water hose pointed directly in the wiper cowl on full blast. TwoI didn’t see a thread just for this so I figured I would post my findings on this.
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