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Subject: Fwd: Bleeding the Clutch
From: Growe58@aol.com
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 1999 21:24:49 EST
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If I understand the problem correctly, you have the bleed nipple open, you're
pumping the pedal with your "other left arm" and nothing comes out.  If it
was     
me (and for once it's not!), I would try working backwards to at least isolate
the     
trouble spot.  Remove the bleed nipple and try, remove the hydraulic line
into    
the slave cylinder and try, remove the line from the m/c and try etc.  The
place
where it goes from no flow to flow can then receive the gentle ministrations
of      
your loving hand (probably in the form of a sharp rap with a hammer! :)   )

I would like to hear how you make out.  

-Greg

In a message dated 2/9/99 8:31:34 PM EST, CraigS@iewc.com writes:

 Guys and Girls !
 I'm going CRAZY !
 I have pumped and bleed that thing so much I feel like a member of
 congress using our tax money!.
 I have investigated, researched, torn it apart, and now I need to call
 in witnesses.
 
 Background:
 New rebuild kit in both master and slave.
 Using synthetic Valvoline DOT 4 and 5 approved.
 I have a suction type bleeder, all it does is suck the piston to the
 back of the master and sit there.
 I went to the tried and true way of pumping and then releasing. 
 Did that till my back is killing me. Sitting on the floor with my legs
 under the car, pumping with my left arm and turning the nipple with my
 left. I have always released on the way down, I get a little air
 sometimes and other times nothing.  I have bleed many systems over my
 many years of shadetree work but I have never ran into a more stubborn
 system than this.
 
 Ken Starr ain't down here in SC and we don't know how to spell
 Louewinsky and I have had enough of this !
 
 Any ideas ?
 
 Craig Smith
 

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From: Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com>
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Subject: Bleeding the Clutch
Date: Tue, 9 Feb 1999 18:42:22 -0600
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Guys and Girls !
I'm going CRAZY !
I have pumped and bleed that thing so much I feel like a member of
congress using our tax money!.
I have investigated, researched, torn it apart, and now I need to call
in witnesses.

Background:
New rebuild kit in both master and slave.
Using synthetic Valvoline DOT 4 and 5 approved.
I have a suction type bleeder, all it does is suck the piston to the
back of the master and sit there.
I went to the tried and true way of pumping and then releasing. 
Did that till my back is killing me. Sitting on the floor with my legs
under the car, pumping with my left arm and turning the nipple with my
left. I have always released on the way down, I get a little air
sometimes and other times nothing.  I have bleed many systems over my
many years of shadetree work but I have never ran into a more stubborn
system than this.

Ken Starr ain't down here in SC and we don't know how to spell
Louewinsky and I have had enough of this !

Any ideas ?

Craig Smith


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