On Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:12:22 -0500, "Skipper"
<bluejays_99@sympatico.ca> wrote:

>Hello All;
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>I've recently had my master clutch cylinder replace on my 05 4 cyl (5 speed manual) of course Accord LX with about 12 000km. This was changed under warranty, I brought my car in because I could hear a kind of a grinder sound when the clutch was near the top. Now a month has passed and it's starting to do the same thing but not all the time. Has anyone else with an 03-06 Accord 5 speed 4 cyl had the same problem? I have my 16 000km service coming up in 3 days so I will get it looked at again. Can the way I drive make the master clutch cylinder break? I always fully release the clutch and never have my foot on it, I always make sure of that, I give my wife heck if her foot is anywhere near the clutch unless she is shifting.
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>I live in North Bay, Ontario and I drive the car 95% of the time and besides the odd trip back home which is 4 hours away, the car is driven in the city. (if you can call North Bay a city.) I don't baby my car but I don't mistreat it either, it is a Honda and I use the horsepower when I need to. Oh yes, I've asked the service department person and he says that they have not received and bulletins on the master clutch cylinder for the 03-06 Accord.
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>Thank you;
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>Richard
Giving the benefit of the doubt on what looks a bit like a troll.

When a clutch master cylinder (or slave cylinder) fails it fails in a
manner whereby the clutch is engaged all the time and will not
disengage when the pedal is pressed. The way you or your wife drives
has nothing to do with its longevity, other than the number of times
it is cycled. Its failure will not cause a grinder noise at the top
of the pedal stroke unless you are talking about shifting with a bad
cylinder in which case the gears would grind and you would not be able
to enter first gear when fully stopped. Or unless your clutch
pedal/bracket is in a bind in some manner.

Premature failure of the clutch hydraulic system could only be caused
by initially faulty components or a foreign substance in the
hydraulics that wears out the piston packing and allows the hydraulic
fluid to bypass.

My two Hondas both had failures of the clutch master at approximately
ten years and well over 100,000 miles. Your experience is not normal.
I would ask to see the removed offending component.

Frank