Tony,
I experienced the same about a month ago when I rebuilt mine. I
succeeded in bleeding the system, but I tried so many different things
that I'm not sure what really worked. I had the same bleeding problem in
my '85 C20 chevy pickup when I replaced the clutch system in it about a
year ago, so I think this is a common thing. I think you need to
concentrate on "backfilling" the master first to get some fluid in it
(even if the reservoir is filled) by using one of those brake bleeding
catch container w/hose. Try disconnecting the clutch line from the
master and stick the hose (with fluid in the cup and it's hose) in the
master and have a helper pump the pedal (and get some rags to catch the
fluid). The next thing I tried, was to fill the slave(maybe you might do
the slave first, then the master), using gravity and the fluid cup
thing. Stick the hose on the clutch line end and let fluid run down the
line (on the inside :-) dummy) and valve the air out of the slave with
the bleed screw and then close it. Reattach the line to the master, and
start pumping the pedal until the slave starts moving and keep going
until all the air gets through the master. I think that's the way I did
mine and it surpised me that I had to use this brute-force method.
Jan
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