2000 Sportage clutch problem

[jelliott110]

I have a 2000 Sportage with manual transmission. My problem is after the car has ran for about 45 minutes the clutch stops working. What happens is after transmission gets up to temp, when you push the pedal in is starts to get hard to push in. Finally the clutch disengages and sticks disengaged. The pedal comes all the way back out but does not engage the clutch. The pedal has no pressure when you push it back in due to not engaging. After it cools back down it will start working again. Checked the fluid level in transmission and master cylinder and both are OK.

Replaced slave cylinder and did not take care of the problem. I did discover that when it happened again I bled the slave cylinder and the clutch engaged again but when I checked the pedal it just pushed in without any pressure til it cooled off.

Thanks

[Kiajime]

I am having the same problem. I think it may be the slave cylinder hanging up.