swampedout

Ive been having problems with my clutch, manifesting in different ways, but especially with the pedal sticking to the floor. Ive taken it to "proffesionals" multiple times. the master and slave cylinders have been replaced. there is a new clutch put in by a shop. and still the other day, while driving, the car stopped engaging gears. I thought i'd put a new slave in and see what happens, but when bleeding it, I couldnt get any pressure building up and heard a hissing from the slave when the pedal was depressed. So I tried tightening the line going into the slave and stripped the bolt (it was already rusty and rounding out, from too much wrenching on it. some of it my fault). But now I'm in a situation where I need to replace this section of line. I've got all the others but the section from the rubber hose to the slave cylinder is discontinued by toyota. I'm calling around parts yards and looking through the internet for aftermarket replacements but i'm not finding anything. posting here to see if anyone knows where to find this line. One specific question is if other lines from previous years will switch out because it seems some of those might be available.
thanks

Tilikum102602

you have a 97 3.4 correct?"

swampedout

Yes, the 3.4.
The part i need is. Luckily it goes into a rubber hose so it doesnt have to be a perfect fit.
While it's sitting up, I guess I'm going to replace the master assembly as people recommend on here.

YT-100

swampedout, did you end up finding a source for the short section of clutch hard line? I'm in need of the same section.

muddpigg

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Shoot, not to bad of a fix. Newbs crack me up when they don't list where they are located. If your close to me I'll help you out. Have left over hardline and correct fittings to make damaged hardline. Chances are you can have a local garage do a hardline for you just pull it and take it to them. Fittings should be M10X1.00.

I'm going to put a braided stainless steel clutch soft line in, it was christmas gift so mad swag factor Pretty proud of it so thought I'd brag.

Check with NAPA for rubber softline or advance or autozone.

Get a set of brakeline wrenches you can find them rather cheap provided the name on them is not Snap-on.

swampedout

Yea I was thinking about going with braided soft line. I ended up getting a brake shop near me to make me one, it cost like 20 bucks and they had it ready in about an hour. As far as I can tell, you can't buy them from toyota or anywhere aftermarket except a parts yard or a helpful forum member. I'm in Louisiana anyways but I appreciate the help. I'm glad I could crack you up!
Also, I will say that after I replaced all my lines, what fixed my problem was getting the aisin slave and master cylinders. I ran through many cheap aftermarket parts like a fool. But once I swapped the aisin parts in, everything was fine. That was about a year ago and my clutch is still feeling great today. There is definitely some flex in the firewall and the rod in the master cylinder goes in at an angle which I really don't like but I've got way more pressing issues with the T to deal with right now.
Hope this helps

muddpigg

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YT-100

Thanks for the reply, swampy.

swampedout

i was a little late but i hope it helped.

YT-100

I ended up buying two lengths of the bendable hard line from NAPA and bending them myself. So far so good. One length I bought was a little too long, but I ended up putting a loop in it to take up the extra length. Thanks again for your input Swampy!