> wrote:
>OK, guys, here is a question. Mazda 626 with manual transmission has
>the clutch pedal that does not always come back (seems to just stay
>stuck).
>
>A bit of background. The winter before the last one the clutch pedal
>would get very difficult to press, while it was the freezing
>temperature outside. After the car warmed up, the clutch became normal.
>The winter before that one there was no higher resistence, things
>worked the same regardless of the temperature. Last summer at some
>point the clutch stopped operating, it turned out that all that the
>fluid had leaked out. Once I added the fluid, things normalized after
>few tens of pedal presses. Then, the past winter the clutch would be
>first normal (while the car is cold), and then once it warmed up the
>resistance to the initial pedal movement would decrease. Eventually,
>the pedal started to get stuck more and more, and it depended on either
>that was the early presses, or the later ones once the car was started.
>There is also some fluid visible on the left of the clutch pedal inside
>the car, kind of on the carpet near the vertical wall that is the
>continuation of the driver's door toward the engine compartment.
>
>Is this sufficient info to say what needs to be replaced?

Well, the fluid is leaking out of the master cylinder, so I'd first replace
that....
--scott
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