Use the EZ bleed on the slave cylinder and push the fluid up to the master
cylinder. (right PaulH?)
Larry Hoy
>-----Original Message-----
>From: owner-mgs@autox.team.net [mailto:owner-mgs@autox.team.net]On
>Behalf Of Tom McLaughlin
>Sent: Tuesday, November 28, 2000 7:11 PM
>To: MG list
>Subject: clutch problems, 77B
>
>
>All,
>Well, I've been busy trying to get a startup company
>going so I haven't been working on the 'B' much. The
>good news is that with regular maintenance, it has
>been running great...until now...
>
>I've had problems with the clutch hydrolic system
>weeping fluid for a while, and never got around to
>fixing it. I just had to top the master cylinder off
>ever once in a while. Well, I guess I let it get to
>low the last time I drove it. Here is what happened.
>I was driving down the street and noticed that it was
>getting harder and harder to change gears and get it
>in gear. The clutch pedal was also pretty squishy.
>To get it home, I did the "start it in gear, shut off
>at stoplights, start it in gear procedure." The
>clutch never slips and I usually never had a hard time
>engaging or disengaging it so I thought it was the
>hydrolics. After getting it home, I looked in the
>clutch MC and it was way low on fluid...I let it go
>too long.
>
>Fast forward to the following Saturday. I spent
>several hours feeding the MC with fluid and trying to
>bleed the system. I used an EZ-Bleed, Miti-Vac and a
>few other methods, but I could never get all the air
>out of the system. The best I could do is be able to
>pump the clutch and get it in gear. I could see that
>there was still air in the system while bleeding it.
>
>My question is, how do I trouble shoot from here. I'm
>almost positive if I could get all of the air out of
>the system, it would be working fine. I know the way
>to solve the problem for good is to find the leak for
>the fluid and fix that and then bleed, but I can't
>find the leak either. It kind of looks like the slave
>is doing the weeping. There is a rubber boot on the
>back end of the slave that looks a little ragged.
>Could it be the culprit?
>
>How should I proceed?
>How do I know if it is just a bleeding issue?
>How do I know if the master cylinder is bad?
>How do I know if the slave cylinder is bad?
>
>Thanks as always in advance,
>Tom
>77B
>
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