I hope you guys can help me out. I was driving in the expressway and I floored it in 2nd when I switched to 3rd my clutch let go and it's super soft all the way to the knee without any effort. It does not disengage from the motor. When I press the clutch all the way to change gears, it does not fully disengage enough for me to switch gears. When I press it all the way down and accelerate I notice it slips a bit but its still engaged. This happened from one second to the other. It has an aftermarket clutch. When the motor is off the clutch feels hard and normal but when the car is on its super soft all the way. It seems to me like maybe a hydraulic problem but all the lines and the fluid reservoir for the brakes looks good. Clutch shares the break fluid I believe. Any knowledgable guys with experience?

 

Did you check the locking rings through the inspection hole?

 

Don't know what that is, and where would the inspection hole be?

 

Bottom of transmission. Look in with a flash light. Directly to the left of the sub member

 

So what is it like a clear glass or just a hole? Also what am I looking for thru the hole? Like what am I looking for?

 

Just a hole. There is probably a dust cover over it, rubber, just remove it.
There are locking rings that are attached to the throwout bearing and to the clutch disc. Try to see if they are not engaged on either item. You can reach on top to move the clutch fork, and you can look in the hole as you move it to see if clutch is working.

 

I am going to check it out now.. So I went to the auto parts store that a buddy of mines works in. He said that it can be the sleeve cylinder loosing pressure and that I should bleed it out. I did, with the help of my wife I told her to pump the clutch ten times then on the last one hold it down. I opened the valve and let some fluid out. It was black. Then I quickly closed it. Now the clutch pedal stays down . I turned on the car to see if it build pressure and it might rise back up but it does not!

 

You have air in clutch line. Your technique is also wrong, you don't pump the clutch pedal when bleeding. Push down once, open, close, pull back pedal. Repeat.

Did you pull back the sleeve on the slave cylinder? When they go there is fluid build up in there.

 

Tob popped off....drop trans and replace. Your buddy is worng and had you do nothing but make more work for you. GL

 

bad slave cylinder

 

What is the TOB? By the way I bleeded the system and nothing.still the spongy feeling and clutch does not disengage. When car is on it does not go into gear because clutch does not disengage. Also when I work the clutch while its on it kind of vibrates hard, seems to me it's partly engaged.

 

That is what I suspect. That is the one on the bottom with the bleeder right? I bleeded the system and nothing same spongy feeling.

 

Got it Throw Out Bearing. I was reading and supposedly if the tob is bad it will rattle and makes noise in neutral. My tranny makes no noise at all. Neither when I was driving it in the streets while it happened clutchless shifting the thing back home.

 

We are not talking about being bad. We presume the TOB is not engaged with the locking rings.

 

I looked under the tranny thru the opening and I could see the tob, from what I can see nothing looks wrong but I don't really know what I should be looking for down there. I see the tob attached to the clutch