What will happen if gear oil put into clutch resevoir? does it needs to be bleed?

You will burn out your clutch because the gear oil is too thick to circulate throughout the clutch system. If you don't have any clutch fluid, the other best thing to use is DOT 3 brake fluid. That's the exact same thing as clutch fluid. The people at the parts store won't tell you that because they want you to spend more money on the clutch fluid. For example the clutch fluid cost about $7 and the DOT 3 brake fluid cost about $2.50 Well you can be the judge of the prices. If your still not convinced go to the parts store and open a container of clutch fluid and smell, then open a container of brake fluid and smell. The liquid in each container are all the same; brake fluidWhat will happen if gear oil put into clutch resevoir? does it needs to be bleed?
The piston seals will go soft and it will quit working in about a week or so.





Drain, flush, and bleed.


Then cross your fingers.What will happen if gear oil put into clutch resevoir? does it needs to be bleed?
A clutch system if very close to a brake system. I've delt with this a few times. Oil in the resivor will eventually (usually withen a few days, even hours depending on the vehicle) will get althroughout the system and anything rubber will swell and kill off that part of the system, everything where the fluid has come in contact with will need to be replaced in sever cases. Have it flushed out as soon as possible, and if you're lucky, no damage will occure, but if its too late, all seals will absorb the oil and expand the seals causeing them to lock up the componats, or cause leaking, Either way, the system will no operate properly. Have it flushed ASAP and hope for the best, worst case senario, new lines, resivor and anything else with rubber or rubber like materials. This can get very expencive. In some braking system's i've done with ABS, its been in the low $3000 range. The clutch system is a simpler system, and without the ABS unit, that will drop the price a fair bit, but for a whole system, you may be looking at $500+ depending on the vehicle, maybe less. Its hard to say the damage, but if not flushed soon, major damage will occure.