Not Urgent...Clutch help

[mally002]

Well,

I know lately I have been all over the board asking questions and now I have another. It seems as soon as I figure one thing out another goes wrong.

I finally got the carbs worked out (ok, not entirely) but now that the Z's running I wanted to take it for it's first test drive only to find out that the clutch is unoperative.

The pedal has absolutley no resistance at all, I pumped it at least 200 times with no change. I looked for signs of leakage and found none, and the fluid is topped off. I looked down near the bottom where the slave cylinder is and it is also dry, but when the clutch is pushed in there is no movement at all at the cylinder. I tried moving it and no luck. My 71 has a return spring and this 73 must be internal, but shouldn't the metal bar move that goes up into the case?

I have not bleed the system yet, would you try that or go ahead and replace the master and slave. Is there a way to check the slave or get movement?

Again......THANKS!

I'll donate some more money soon to the site, sorry for all the questions lately but I'm learning a ton and have basically no mechanical experience. My 42 year old brain still has room though...........

[MikeW]

I'd bleed it before anything else. That may be all you have to do.

[Arne]

I agree. First step is to bleed it.

On second thought, maybe not. I guess we can't assume anything for certain, if we don't know when the clutch last worked. So the real first step should be to double-check that the pedal is attached to the master cylinder pushrod, and that it is adjusted close-enough that the pushrod does move with the pedal.

If that checks out, then bleed the system.