So i have a 94 toyota tercel and up until now it has run very strong and i've had no major problems. i've performed regular scheduled maintainence. I have about 160k miles on it and a few days ago my clutch started acting up. It would be fully engaged when i lifted the pedal about a quarter of an inch from the floor. Sometimes it wouldn't even disengage and i would have to stall it in order to prevent driving right through a red light or backing into another car in a parking lot. the worst part is that it would happen at random times. Since it would fully engage i figured it can't be the clutch itself. So, without previous knowledge on bleeding a hydraulic clutch (thought it would be similar to brakes (IMG:style_emoticons/default/s10.gif) ) i replaced the slave and master cylinders. from what i could tell the lines are fine but it was the old master cylinder that was the problem... so through quite a bit of frustration i figured out how to "properly" bleed them. i tried it the way you do with brakes and i tried three other methods... the second was using a needle to inject fluid through the bleeder valve, problem was it was for a motorcycle so it was rigged together and failed... then i tried using a one-man brake bleeder which i got the most success out of... i would have a friend pump it 10 times then hold their foot to the floor and i released the pressure and tightened it back up while their foot was still on the floor and repeated till i went through a whole container of brake fluid(DOT3) and that did the best but it still feels weak... i also made sure that through my endevours i kept the resivoir filled... any help on how to get ALL of the air out of the lines, slave, and master cylinders (preferably without having to tear apart my car again)? Also, what could have been causing my original problem(it still happens even now but extremely significantly less)? please help, i really love my lil terkel and can't imagine parting with it, that and i feel that the garages in my area are a bunch of scammers(my cars usually get worse the more i take it to them). thanks.

Make sure you have free play in the pedal. There should be a lillte bit of clearence between the master cylinder pushrod and the piston.
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