SVT Cold Morning Starts

screaming4snow · Wed Sep 14, 2011 4:21 pm

the clutch is EXTREMELY squishy, you BARELY let up off the floor and its already grabbing
it is SUPER HARD to shift into a gear
BUT after she warms up she shifts in and out alright.
EXCEPT the clutch still feels a little squishy BUT not as bad.

any suggestions?

bflesher · Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:20 pm

What kind of fluid? And maybe try the 2 person bleed of the clutch.

tgnorman · Wed Sep 14, 2011 6:42 pm

Bleed that sucker. Mine always seemed to get goofy after a few months, bleed it back out and it was like normal again.

Best thing I ever got was a motive power bleeder, turns it into a one person, 10 minute job.

Stilz · Wed Sep 14, 2011 9:51 pm

tgnorman wrote:Bleed that sucker. Mine always seemed to get goofy after a few months, bleed it back out and it was like normal again.

Best thing I ever got was a motive power bleeder, turns it into a one person, 10 minute job.

You WERE always good at SUCKING.

bflesher · Thu Sep 15, 2011 4:14 am

tgnorman wrote:Bleed that sucker. Mine always seemed to get goofy after a few months, bleed it back out and it was like normal again.

Best thing I ever got was a motive power bleeder, turns it into a one person, 10 minute job.

\I wonder if the zetec and svt are different as far as clutch set up because I used the motive for 10 minutes after I installed the svt rear brakes and ended up doing the 2 person. Figured as long as I'm here I may as well bleed the clutch, again, and again, and again,, until I realized it wasn't going to work.

Thu Sep 15, 2011 9:23 am

I've had to bleed the clutch in my car exactly one time and that was when I changed the clutch master cylinder.

If you have to bleed it at any time other than after replacing a part something is wrong.

Mine works fine at 100 degrees or -40 degrees, makes no difference, in extreme cold it does get hard to shift but that's just the nature of manual transmissions.

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focinite · Fri Sep 16, 2011 1:01 am

check to see if yer clutch pedal is swoll from a leak.

blcksvt2003 · Sat Sep 17, 2011 2:08 am

i only notice the harder shifts on cold days till its warms up .and it likes to sit around 2k for the forst few min too. clutch always feels the same to me no matter the temperature.

Miller · Mon Sep 26, 2011 11:22 pm

On these colder days are you wearing heavier or thicker shoes? I notice my clutch feels alot different in work boots compared to tennis shoes. The grabbing right away could also be due to the common high idle on cold start ups these cars had.