- 1. Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "wcameyer" <wcameyer@email.msn.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 08:36:44 -0700
- Tried last night with my Mighty-Vac and by gravity w/o luck. What is the best way to bleed the MGB clutch?? Bill
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01096.html (7,072 bytes)
- 2. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "E.Claure" <spanlab@ceibo.entelnet.bo>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 23:46:55 -0800
- Bill, the best way to bleed the clutch is the ol jelly jar and tubing. Get a helper to pump the clutch. Easy task Bill, Go fo it. Enrique
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01097.html (7,215 bytes)
- 3. RE: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Gordon Bird <gb@the-bdc.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 10:48:51 -0500
- I used an EZ-Bleed in the normal fashion and it worked fine. I have heard Paul H, and others say to use the EZ-Bleed from the slave, forcing the fluid into the MC from below. Not sure what the advant
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01098.html (7,417 bytes)
- 4. RE: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Duinhoven_Hans@emc.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 11:14:46 -0500
- This works fine! Done quickly. Bill, the best way to bleed the clutch is the ol jelly jar and tubing. Get a helper to pump the clutch. Easy task Bill, Go fo it. Enrique
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01099.html (7,480 bytes)
- 5. RE: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "Ken Waringa" <kwaringa@dynsys.com>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 12:31:56 -0600
- Bill, I just replaced the clutch hydraulics on my son's 79 B last weekend. Bleeding it was a royal pain in the a**. What I do is get a long piece of rubber tubing. Place one end over the bleeder scre
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01112.html (8,207 bytes)
- 6. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Ajhsys@aol.com
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 15:12:38 EST
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - Most books recommend not recirculating the brake fluid. The problem is that you add very small bubbles of air as you pump. If you put that air back into the MC, you have muc
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01117.html (8,478 bytes)
- 7. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark and kathy LaPierre" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:11:47 -0600
- Or get a Visibleed and do it buy your self. You don't even need to keep the tube submerged in the fluid. Suggest going around the car twice or even 3 times if needed. Whats another hour spent, to be
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01127.html (7,843 bytes)
- 8. Re: Clutch bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "Mark and kathy LaPierre" <mgtrcars@galaxyinternet.net>
- Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2000 19:21:15 -0600
- Oops, that was a clutch question not a brake question, sorry. Yes the Visibleed does work nicely on clutch bleeding too. Mark
- /html/mgs/2000-11/msg01128.html (7,215 bytes)
- 9. Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Carl French <cfrench@cybertours.com>
- Date: Sat, 22 May 1999 16:17:19 -0400
- I need to bleed the clutch tonight and clean out the MC. It has something in it that causes an intermittant problem. I know that this is an easy job within my limited scope. But could anyone send me
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg01054.html (6,563 bytes)
- 10. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 09:04:09 -0400 (EDT)
- Carl what should be an easy process may not turn out to be so easy. If after several attemps you still can't get the air out then open the bleeder and walk away for a while. Maybe overnight. I have d
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg01069.html (7,037 bytes)
- 11. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Carl French <cfrench@cybertours.com>
- Date: Sun, 23 May 1999 10:09:10 -0400
- Actually it went fine. It was very simple and the 'chunky style'olive drab fluid that came out has been replaced with nice clear as water LMA. What amazed me was that (first, I had not broken it) it
- /html/mgs/1999-05/msg01072.html (7,524 bytes)
- 12. Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Enrique Claure <spaninc@ceibo.entelnet.bo>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 11:08:48 -0400
- Hi MGers, I have my engine and tranny out of the car and wonder if it is possible to bleed the clutch hydraulics before I completely install the tranny-engine in? Enrique
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01612.html (6,856 bytes)
- 13. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 10:29:08 -0400
- Yes!! Get a shop vac, rubber tubing and a film canister. Larry Larry Macy 78 Midget Keep your top down and your chin up Larry B. Macy, Ph.D. macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu System Administrator/Manage
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01617.html (7,288 bytes)
- 14. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Art Pfenninger <ch155@freenet.buffalo.edu>
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 12:11:01 -0400 (EDT)
- No, when you push the clutch pedal in the push rod on the slave cylinder will fall out since it won't be connected to anything. ...Art
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01628.html (7,155 bytes)
- 15. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: REwald9535@aol.com
- Date: Mon, 26 Apr 1999 21:48:03 EDT
- Am I missing something here? If the engine and trans are bolted together on the floor and the clutch master is located in the car on the other side of the garage. How do you connect the two together
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01662.html (7,486 bytes)
- 16. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
- Date: Tue, 27 Apr 1999 09:52:43 -0400
- OK Here it is again - try this. cut a hole in the bottom of the film can to fit the tubing tightly. Instert one end of the tubing into the hole in the film can. Slip the film can onto the hose from
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01687.html (8,459 bytes)
- 17. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: "Paul Hunt" <paul.hunt1@virgin.net>
- Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1999 20:35:15 +0100
- Remove slave from bellhousing and leave dangling from car on hose? PaulH. http://freespace.virgin.net/paul.hunt1/ on extra
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01913.html (8,138 bytes)
- 18. Re: Clutch Bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
- Date: Fri, 30 Apr 1999 12:40:57 -0700
- Yeah, and then you'd have to wire up the push rod to keep it from blowing free as soon as you stepped on the pedal! But it could work. Paul Hunt had this to say: -- == Max Heim mvheim@studiolimage.co
- /html/mgs/1999-04/msg01919.html (8,651 bytes)
- 19. Clutch bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: Bruce Stevenson <bsteven@netshop.net>
- Date: Fri, 25 Apr 1997 20:45:21 -0700
- Hurray, hurray, my son Sean finally got the air out of the clutch line. It took three days of pumping, but the clutch now works. Now, we just have to free the jam nut on the tie rod end to replace th
- /html/mgs/1997-04/msg01320.html (6,705 bytes)
- 20. clutch bleeding (score: 1)
- Author: gerry@hostel.lincroftnj.attgis.com
- Date: Fri, 15 Mar 96 09:24 EST
- As you have a Midget 1500, then you are in luck - there is an easier way to blead the clutch. Being a 1500, you should have the red flexible clutch hose, as opposed to the rigid type. What I did on m
- /html/mgs/1996-03/msg00484.html (7,613 bytes)
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