clutch keeps losing fluid and goes soft evryday no signs of fluid anywhere on the ground wher can all the fluid be going it is mind boggeling somebody please help

Asked by papadr1 Sep 15, 2012 at 06:53 PM about the 1956 Volvo PV444

Question type: Maintenance & Repair

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It has to be going somewhere. Double check clutch slave and master cylinders, metal lines. Most often it is the clutch master cylinder. This is a single piston blind bore cylinder, located under the floorboard adjacent to the slave cylinder (not far away) Support the car on wheel ramps, and carefully get under, observe master and slave, and tubing. Use aerosol brake cleaner to flush away any dirt and fluids, top off master cylinder, then operate clutch a few dozen times, recheck for fluids. Often it leaks from the master, toward the actuating rod attached to the clutch pedal lever, behind the rubber dust boot. Only solution is replacement, and they can be tricky to bleed...

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