If you want your car fixed, take to someone that knows how.

This last week has been a real challenge for me. I have a friend here that her clutch stopped working. She took it to the dealer and they wanted $300.00 just for the parts alone. We went on line and found out what they would cost in the states. They would be around $100..00. So I did some shopping around here and found them for $113.00. So we went with them and now I can tell you about what happen next.
Looking at a repair manual that we have here, it really didn't look that hard at all. So I volunteer to fix it. Now I had to stand on my hear to get the part out, under the dash. Got it apart and put it back in. Mean while I put the brake booster back in tight, hoping to hold the clutch master cylinder in place. Now I didn't really look at the new part. It looked good and then I found out the nuts didn't go back on. So I drove around the island trying to find the next size up. 9MM. There is NO ONE on this island that has that size. So I went back and took it out again. Looking at it the nuts went on okay. Okay I realize I didn't have the part all the way in. So the nut just spun. I am doing this by feel. I can't see the nuts. I put the part back in. Got the nut to go on. Hooking up the linkage of the peddle. I had to push the peddle all the way to the floor. Now something else is WRONG. Guess what I have the honor to take it out one more time. FUNNNNNN. Okay I got it back out. The linkage was the wrong length. So I switched the linkage with the old one. It is only piston. No rubber parts on this. So it should work.
WELLA it did. Now I needed to changed out the slave cylinder. The book tells me it is under the engine. So you need to take the bottom plate off to get to it. I got under it and looked and looked, could not see it at all. It is on the front of the engine, get to it and guess WHAT. It is fixed and I thank my Lord Jesus Christ for that.