Clutch Slave Cyl sprung a leak?

[steve911]

Due to work commitments this year, my wife and I had only put 30 or so miles on our '04 prior to the Viper Invades Niagara trip.

I got the car ready for the trip, pulled it out of the garage to load it up and noticed a puddle of "oil" the size of a small saucer on the floor under the car. I thought this great. After checking all the levels, I noticed that the clutch master cyl resevoir was low on fluid.

Well I wasn't goint to be able to fix it, so I packed a bottle of brake in the car with us and off to "Canadia" we go.

Made the whole trip on a pint of brake fluid, and the day after we got back, I went to move the car and no clutch and a really big puddle on the floor.

The car is at the dealer now getting repaired.

Is a slave cylinder failure common or is this a fluke. The car an '04 had 6100 miles before the trip.

thanks
Steve A.

 

[2000_Black_RT10]

You may have also got the disc wet with fluid driving it with a leak.. which will also need to be replaced if so..

After reading enough posts searching about them the other month.. summarizing that there are just too many causes.. may be just be a bad seal, could be a crack in the casting, some last a long time and some fail within thousands of miles, there were bad batches made, etc..

 

[Art 138]

The only issue I had with my 04 was some weeping at the bottom of the resorvoir.....I replaced the self adjust hose clamp with one that tightens with a screw....never had issues with it thereafter....I wonder if the clutch was bled out and the bleed screw not tightened enough....

 

[ViperGeorge]

Look on the bright side, at least you made it to Niagra and back.

 

[2001 GTS]

I had 2 go out back to back on my GEN2.

 

[Viper Specialty]

Not an unheard of failure...