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Re: [TR] Bleeding Clutch Slave Cylinder

To: "MMoore8425@aol.com" <MMoore8425@aol.com>
Subject: Re: [TR] Bleeding Clutch Slave Cylinder
From: Vin Marshall <vlm@te-motorworks.com>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2008 19:36:43 -0400
I don't hold the pedal down.  I press and release it a few times.   
Which really is pretty much the same as doing nothing and then driving  
it.

It is my understanding that the bubbles will work their way out just  
by sitting there, but that it may take a  while. Allegedly pumping the  
pedal - and thereby the slave cylinder - makes the process go faster.

That's my understanding of it anyway.

-vin


On Jul 28, 2008, at 7:18 PM, MMoore8425@aol.com

>
> I really wonder if its necessary to bleed it at all. What keeps  
> bubbles from rising up to the reservoir? What exactly does "holding  
> the pedal down" do anyway besides increase cylinder pressure and  
> make bubbles smaller? I just replaced a 1 inch slave on my TR3A  
> yesterday and I haven't bled it at all. I'll just drive it and it  
> will take care of itself somehow! (At least it has since 1964!)
> Mike Moore
>
>
>
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