Seboj

2005 Honda Civic VP 2-door coupe, 5 speed manual, all stock, currently 180k miles.

So the clutch slave cylinder mounts on a tab on the front of the transmission by 2 bolts. Back in September, the cylinder snapped right between the 2 bolts, and I replaced it with one from Autozone.

It worked fine until mid December, when it snapped again, but this time it sheared a bolt off inside the tab on the transmission, the right side bolt.

Long story short, the mechanic I took the car to to have the bolt extracted flubbed the job (while trying to scam me), and the hole is all FUBARed. The left bolt is holding OK, so rather than replacing the whole tranny because of this stupid hole, I built a steel bracket going from the tranny bolt on the left side, across the top of the cylinder's mount, down to the engine mount bolt on the bottom right. It's not perfect, but it works so far.

There's still some movement from the slave due to all the hydraulic pressure. My question is what keeps causing the slave cylinder to snap? They're obviously made of weak material, but for 2 to go so fast like that, makes me think that the clutch fork isn't going back easy enough, causing the slave to push itself backwards to the point of snapping.

Any ideas?

jimperry6315

i am having the same problem!! These aftermarkets are so cheap i guess. Can you pm me a pic of what you did to solve this. i have broken 2 also. thanks

Colin42

It's been 9 years...
go to a junkyard and get one