OP --- Had this same thing happen to me over the weekend.I was out of town (NC Mountains, 300 miles from home/tools) The clutch would slip and be really slow to engage causing slip unless I was easy throught the RPM's. I called a local Honda Dealer thinking I may need service ASAP just to get home.

One of the Tech's got on the phone and told me to check the master cyclnder under the dash where the shaft attaches to the pedal. If there is fluid then the master cyclnder was pulling in air causing slow engagment. I inspected and found alot of fluid. He explained that the air in the system would cause the slave cyclinder to almost hang in the extended position.

So now I'm going to replace both units this week, master/slave.

Also any insight on this would help also, I'm a noob to s2000's. The repairs are easy I know but is this a common problem? Or should I just order a clutch/pressure plate/master/slave too? AP1 with 60K

Sry to thread jack but didn't need another thread with the same like issue.

 

The clutch master cylinder isn't too hard to replace, just two nuts under the dash and one cotter pin that goes through the clutch pedal pin. You should use a 10mm flared open end wrench to remove the hard clutch line under the hood that goes to the master cylinder. There probably isn't any need to replace the slave cylinder. Spend some time bleeding out the air afterwards as that can negatively affect operation of the clutch.

Hard to say if you need a new clutch or not, probably not but every clutch is different depending on how it was used, we've seen clutches killed at 8,000 miles and some well over 100k miles. I'd probably just do the master cylinder first and see how it all works after that.

 

There's a useful thread with a picture from Billman250 on bleeding the clutch system.

And there's a local guy here who has over 150k miles on his clutch. It all depends on how you drive it.

 

Past history on the car? I know its a one owner before me and I've only had it for about 3 weeks now. I've driven it 900 miles total.
Robbie - a.k.a Dressed2Kill -- Drove the car about a week ago and expressed how nice the clutch felt, so I'm not a horriable enough driver to burn a clutch in one HWY trip I hope.

I'll change the Master Cylinder and see how it goes. My local dealership has on for $110 in stock.

 

Sometimes changing the fluid is enough to stop a leak other times the damage is already done