When you were a kid, did you ever play "Mousetrap"??
Same idea.
Larry
On Apr 14, 2013, at 8:54 PM, Rick Bastedo <rbastedo@gmail.com> wrote:
> No old fluid, purged that out first - only recirculated good clean fluid.
>
> Here's the deal, this has a Datsun slave cylinder on a Datsun transmission.
> I called Bill M. this morning after trying and failing some more.
> According to Bill I needed to get a bike tire pump and a long piece of
> tubing.
> Then hang the end of the tubing up as far as possible and pump until the
> fluid was up to the top.
> Then using the tire pump force the fluid back through the slave and up into
> the master reservoir.
> If I did it right I'd see bubbles in the reservoir.
> So I did this several times, saw bubbles, then after there were no more
> bubbles I got Peter out to help me with the good old:
> "Down" he pushes the pedal down and holds it while I open the bleeder to
> let out bubbles and then close the bleeder
> "Up" He lets the pedal up
> "Down" he pushes the pedal down and holds it while I open the bleeder to
> let out bubbles and then close the bleeder
> "Up" He lets the pedal up
> "Down"
> And repeat untile... It worked!!
>
> Now my clutch feels and acts better than ever before!
>
> That was a really difficult job, but now I know how mine works so if I ever
> have to do it again hopefully I'll remember.
>
> Rick (have pedal will travel) Bastedo
>
>
>
>> Rick,
>>
>> I just this past Thursday re-bled the clutch after being left open all
>> winter. The master was dry on the clutch side and not sure how much fluid
>> was still in the slave. The slave was open all winter. Not a good
practice,
>> but it happened. We have a 3/4" master and 7/8" slave. This is what we
did.
>> My son (52 yrs old) under the car working the clutch bleeder. Me in the
>> car
>> pumping the clutch. Bleeder open - pumped very vigorously probably 20
>> pumps. Closed bleeder - pumped about 20 pumps. Pedal down - open
>> bleeder.,
>> pump about 5- 10 pumps - pedal down - open bleeder. Repeat till fluid runs
>> fairly clear. Do not recirculate the fluid. Old fluid is dirty. After
>> about 4 repeats I began to feel pressure on the pedal. two or three more
>> repeats and pedal is good, clutch operates as designed. This all took
>> maybe
>> 20 minutes Max.
>> In 30 years working on bugeye's, I have never spent the time you describe.
>> I suspect you are using all the pedal/piston travel to mover the fluid up
>> to
>> the master sylinder in the plastic tube. and when you release the pedal,
it
>> pulls the fluid back out of the line fron the master to the slave.
>>
>> BTW, it was 40 deg's and sleeting in Mich. when I did this. But, we were
>> inside dry at about 50 deg.
>>
>> Good luck, hope you get it done.
>>
>> Jeff Kelly
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