I just got the new slave cylinder from Luk, put everything back together and now I’m stuck with just the hose not connection with the quick connect fitting. I tried pushing it in and I can feel the valve pushing back but the hose doesn’t click. The hose does still click back into the old slave cylinder no problem, just not the new one. Do I need to replace the hose or do anything with the fitting? (Note: it’s not the c-clamp style, it just pushes in and clicks.)

 

here are some pics of the connections, sorry for the crappy quality I took them quick before I left for work.


Here

 

You may have pressure on the fluid in the slave. If you haven't tried this already, open the bleeder to release the pressure and try connecting it again.

 

+1 ^^^

Always open the bleeder when installing manual transmission, AND when hooking up the hose

Once hose is hooked up wait for fluid to flow out of the bleeder, with NO air bubbles then tighten bleeder, called gravity bleeding, with clutch pedal up fluid is free to flow downhill from master to slave, the end of the hose has a valve inside to prevent this when its disconnected, once connected valve is open and fluid will flow downhill(gravity)
Top up reservoir, and you are done

There are two different styles of connectors, but change was back in 1991/2 so shouldn't be the issue in a 2001

Watch this video

 

I had the bleeder open when I tried it, and I watched that exact video when the dang thing didn’t want to go in. The little metal fingers are almost flat so I’m going to try to bend them a bit with a pick and see if that helps. I’ll update in a bit.

update: didn’t work so I guess I’m gonna buy a new line and see if that plugs in correctly, otherwise I guess I’m going to have to pull everything back out and replace the slave cylinder again.

 

Does the hose end plastic ring slide in and out?
The one used to "release" it in the video
If not that could be the issue, i.e. it needs to be "back" all the way so clips can grab the fitting
When sliding the fitting in grab the hose only so you don't push that ring forward

 

I had thought that could’ve been a problem yesterday and ended up popping the ring off to see if it’s in the way at all. Honestly, the plug on the slave cylinder looks a bit different from the Oem one. Looks either a little deeper or shorter can’t tell because I’m an idiot, but it’s definitely wider then the factory slave cylinder. I even popped the little metal ring with the fingers out and swapped the rings to see if that would work. It’s driving me crazy, I appreciate your concern to help me out though. <3 it’s tough, my dad just passed and I have a second kid on the way and I’m only 20.

Edit: I ordered a new Oem slave cylinder from work to eliminate any possibility of the hose not fitting. So I’ll be pulling the trans tomorrow and hopefully getting it back together tonight. I’ll put a second edit to this tomorrow with an update.