Clutch Pedal Freeplay - Video Included

[No Crust Racing]

CA18, 180-190rwkw, stock clutch, track car.

Pedal has stopped returning all the way to the top. Clutch feels like it's engaging OK, though there has been a few grinds due to mis-shift since it started playing up. Video shows how much freeplay is in the pedal before the master starts engaging. Plenty of fluid in the master, does not appear to be any leak on the shaft or down the firewall in the engine bay.

I've got a clutch on the way anyway, but wondering if this is a fatigued pressure plate, failing clutch master, as simply as needing a bleed, or something else.

Edited January 16, 2013 by ActionDan

[GTSBoy]

Something physical may have changed with the clutch or the hydraulics....but seeing as you have plenty of adjustment available in the pedal there, just adjust out the excess freeplay that you have, then monitor it to see if it keeps changing. If you get the freeplay coming back, then you really start to work on what is actually causing it. If it stays the same and keeps working, you forget about it after 3 months.

[No Crust Racing]

I'll definitely do that for starters and will sit my clutch on the shelf until this one goes, would be nice to fix it when I do the clutch though.