When you switch the slave cylinder so that the bleed screw is on the
top bleed it with the slave cylinder loose. That is, let it hang from
the top bolt (with the bottom bolt out) so that the bleed screw is at
the VERY TOP. If you install both bolts and THEN bleed the clutch the
bleed screw will not be at the TOP and there will still be just a little
bit of air hiding above the bleed screw that can compress and cause the
lost of just enough movement in the slave rod to make the clutch not
work properly and may cause you to run gallons of fluif through the
system trying to get it bled (don't ask how I know this).
For those of you who tried and tried to bleed a clutch and couldn't get
enough pedal this small bit of hidden air might be your problem.
Bud
71TR6 CC57365
71TR6 CC65446
Art & Karen Graves wrote:
>
> Mike,
>
> For a different twist on the same subject, I also placed the clutch slave
>cyinder bleed
> screw on the bottom. It just seemed the logical spot since a bottom placement
>would not
> allow fluid (or fluif) to run out over the slave cylinder and hydrolic line.
>It was
> difficult to bleed (I manually pushed the push rod all the way in to force
>out the air
> before I bled it) but the clutch works fine. Now that I've read here that it
>is wrong,
> I'll have to go out this weekend and switch the bleed screw and hydrolic
>line. My only
> consolation is that it should be easier to bleed this time around!
>
> Thanks for pointing this out to me!
>
> Art Graves
> 1976 TR6
> Austin, Texas
>
> ---------------
>
> Mike Coop Wrote:
>
> >Bill -
> >
> >After my fiasco with the brake system rebuild on my Spitfire, I hesitate to
> >even show my name again on the list. However, I have to ask... is it
> >possible you reinstalled the slave cylinder upside down? Is the bleed
> >valve properly on the top?
> >
> >If not, you'll have the same troubles I had with my front brake calipers.
> >If they are installed in the wrong position (anything other than what would
> >allow the bleed valve to be on top) then you'll have a bubble of air in the
> >cylinder that you'll never bleed out.
> >
> >
> >Mike Coop
> >Michael Coop Agency, Inc.
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