# Clutch issue E36 M3

**URL:** <https://forums.speedlife.net/t/clutch-issue-e36-m3/256352>\
**Category:** Shift518 Automotive\
**Created:** [January 9, 2011, 8:44pm UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/clutch-issue-e36-m3/256352 "2011-01-09T20:44:37Z")\
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**Author:** ![CJRando](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/flex034/user_avatar/forums.speedlife.net/cjrando/32/6369_2.png) [@CJRando](https://forums.speedlife.net/u/CJRando)\
**Post date:** [January 10, 2011, 6:45am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/clutch-issue-e36-m3/256352/5 "2011-01-10T06:45:20Z")

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> [@OFFICIAL NYSPEED HOODIE/SHIRT ORDER THREAD](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/official-nyspeed-hoodie-shirt-order-thread/37485/46):
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> Are you sure you reassembled the slave correctly, and that the slave’s dust boot seal wasn’t torn?
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> Any fluid leaking out of trans? Sounds like a bad slave to me. Did you bleed the slave?
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> Wait…you pressed the clutch without it being installed in anything and the piston did NOT shoot out?
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> Uh. What.

There’s no fluid leaking out of the transmission. The piston did shoot out of the slave, but its not leaking. I didn’t take the slave apart yet. I’ve tried to bleed it, but I don’t think I did it long enough or even correctly.

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