Hi all, I thought I would update you on the latest on my clutch spin
(not slip). I replaced the rubber hose and the old one looked in good
shape so I pulled the guts out of the master cylinder to replace the
rubber. The rubber all looked fresh and flexible. As I had said, none
of it leaked and everything looked new. (I've only had the car a year).
Then I started bleeding the system again. I couldn't get the system
properly bleed. Then I couldn't get hardly any brake fluid out of the
system. I was using the pressure method of bleeding so I increased the
pressure a little and fluid started leaking around the slave rubber but
not coming out of the bleed hole even with the nipple off. I put quite
a bit of pressure on the system and then I pulled the slave cylinder
and it was full of sandy black gunk that clogging the bleed hole. The
cylinder wasn't filling. Not I had already cleaned and replaced the
slave rubber weeks ago. The fluid I got out of it was full of black
dirt.
I have run 2 quarts of brake fluid through the system already without
getting dirt out of it. The metal brake lines appeared to be new (no
rust at all on them). So I thought the rubber hose had been clogged. I
ran a wire through it and didn't get anything out of it.
Somewhere in that system, which all looked new, not a speck of rust on
any metal, a ton of gunk was hiding that finally came loose under the
pressure and made it's way down to the slave cylinder.
I'm hoping to get it bleed out again and fully expect it to work now!
Mike
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