Thanks to all who responded - I will try again this weekend using all your
suggestions.
Jim, I do remember you having problems bleeding the clutch on Rob's car when
I was in Seattle.
My slave was sleeved not the master...but I will check the holes form the
reservoir anyway. The master is fairly new and full of fluid
Jan's idea sounds right...I have to get as much air out of the system first,
but I worry about all this fluid floating about
I like the sound of Jon's solution with the one man pressure bleeder if I
can get one locally
Thanks guys
Tony
From: jumpin'jan <servaij(at)cris.com>
To: Tony Leeming <tleeming(at)island.net>
Cc: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Date: January 4, 1999 5:19 AM
Subject: Re: Bleeding Clutch!!
>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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