I really F'ed up! Help me find out what I did
 

Well I haven't been driving a manual for too long (a week) and last night at Taco Bell at 2 am I pulled to the drive thru window, pushed all the way on the clutch and then braked. After talking a little bit, I threw on the e-brake and mistakenly forgot to put it into neutral. I popped the clutch. It died. It started up, but the clutch felt like there was nothing there. It didn's sink to the floor, but I pushed on it and there was nothing there. It wouldn't go into gear.

After pushing it home and waiting the next day, my dad took a look at it. He knows about older american made cars but not too much about newer foreign ones. First we tried to find the clutch fluid resevoir and we couldn't. So if anyone could let us know where that is too, that'd be great.

Anyway, there could be several problems with it, but everyone we talk to says it is the linkage. What we want to know is: is there an inspection plate to open up or does the whole tranny have to be taken out to fix it?

The clutch fluid resevoir is part of the brake fluid resevoir, it's an overfill area. (if it's like the Evo) A good starting point as you probably know, is to bleed the clutch line.

warranty work time.

normally it doesnt do anything but you may dislogded the shifting cables, locked it in gear or, blew your pressure plate..

Same on the Lancer.

What about broken TO bearing or shift fork? Iono, but definitely sounds like it's not going to be fun to fix. Tell your dad not to sweat it being Japanese too much. They still operate on the same basic principles, even if he's not used to the looks/locations of some of the parts. ;)

Thats scary especially if it is a 2005? A very old car I could something like this happening but a new car pretty odd.

It wont go into any gear? The clutch pedal is on the floor or still able to be pushed down?

well its still able to be pushed down, but there is no resistance, it is like pushing air. We tried draining the slave drive (if thats the right word, i think thats what he called it) and nothing came out. Then a friend came over and we found some resivioir right by the master cylinder and tried to drain it and nothing came out. The friend also noted that he didn't think the linkage was broken. So now everyone thinks it is the master cylinder and it is just not pumping fluid. He thinks he can fix that becuase he found some repair kit online.

Hopefully that's all it is cuz I'm running low on money and need alot more extras!

Was the problem fixed? I had something like that similar but it was a different car. The slave and the master cylinder was messed up and it took 2 people to do the process of draining out the fluid and then taking out all the air pockets. An update would be cool. Hope everything's okay. {thumbup}

well the master cylinder is in the mail and should arrive tomorrow. That is all we will be replacing so far. Hopefully that is it. When we took out the old one, it didn't seem to be pumping too much fluid.

Solo bleeding of brake or clutch lines is not recommended in most cases. They may kits to make it a one person job, but I usually just call up a friend who's got a little free time. Much easier that way IMO.

and people wonder why mitsubishi has a strict warranty policy.

Assuming this is the only dumb thing he's done with the clutch (hell, I've done worse to my car), neither cylinder should have failed. So yeah, it was a silly mistake, but it's not unreasonable to believe that it could be covered.

i think your clutch line probably snapped. check it

That's ridiculous. Dumping the clutch should not screw anything up. I've done it plenty on even 10-15 year old cars without a problem. In my experience, you have to really abuse a car to destroy the clutch (no it doesn't take that long, but still dumping it once doesn't do anything).

Especially on a brand new lancer, wtf... I would say that it's a defect, it should be covered by warranty..

He didn't dump it though, he basically stalled it HARD with the e-brake engaged. I mean I've done it in my Lancer once or twice when I'd forgotten I parked the car in gear, and I've done way more stupid things while driving. It should NOT have failed, no matter what exactly failed.