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Old Wed., May 07, 2008
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What are the symptoms? You might be experiencing clutch disk contamination. Are there copious amounts of dark dust around the lower portion of the bell housing? Is there a fluid leak in the clutch master cylinder?

Note: The clutch slave shares it's fluid reservoir with the brake master cylinder, hence the master/slave relationship. One fact to note is that the reservoir is segregated in that the clutch slave can be drained of fluid without affecting the usable portion of fluid in the reservoir for the master cylinder operation. It is a fail-safe function. It is hard to see this, but if you look at the front left corner (your perspective) of the reservoir, you will see where it is divided off.

Without knowing exactly what is going on, we are just shooting in the dark. However, we all agree that this should not be happening. Just like my '07Tundra 12K miles should not be getting 12MPG on the highway and the motor rattling, my '07 Camry should not have bald tires on the front at 13K miles, and my TRD S/C on my tC should not have a cracked mounting bracket; we all bought Toyota quality and trusted that this would extend to service/warranty issues. Such is not the case anymore now that Toyota is the world's largest automotive manufacturer. Welcome to GM quality.
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