Fathers Day clutch bleed

951527 · 06-16-2002, 03:28 PM

Decided to have some quality time today with my car. First track day is in 3 weeks. I bled the brakes and clutch. Got it off the jacks and clutch went all the way down and would not come back. I did this last year with no problems. Used a pressure bleeder attached to the res. I searched and saw all the posts on bleeding the clutch. I was thinking about hooking the pressure bleeder back up, pumping it up and leaving it with pressure over night till i can do it again. Will this be OK. When I was bleeding the clutch it started to have clean fluid come out of the slave bleed screw so i let it run a few more seconds and then it started pissing a lot of air. It would then run fluid a while andd then all of a sudden a ton of air. There was plenty of fluid in the bleeder and res. Had this happen a bunch of times. Could I just have a bunch of air still in the system.

John

Makis · 06-16-2002, 04:16 PM

Use the pressure bleeder but also pump the clutch pedal at the same time. This worked on me straight away. The pressure bleeder by itself was not working on my case.

Kenne944 · 06-16-2002, 05:50 PM

Try reverse bleeding it. I did that on mine and i didn't need to pump the clutch pedal and it forces all the air out easier. Might take away but it does work alot better.

Kenne
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AFJuvat · 06-17-2002, 09:03 AM

I've always had really good luck vacuum bleeding - I just teflon all of the hose junctions. I've always used a quart of the cheap DOT 4 stuff (to flush out the lines) and follow it with ATE superblue.

Sounds like you wither have a lot of air in there, or a leak that is letting air in. When was the last time you changed reservoir to master cylinder hose? They do deteriorate over time.

AFJuvat

951527 · 06-18-2002, 04:09 AM

Pedal is back!! Found another use for a wife. I hade my wife kneel on the garage floor and reacj in and pump the clutch pedal whili I had the pressure bleeder hooked up and I bled the slave cylinder again. It took about 10 minutes, but its OK now. It worked fine all three times I bled it last year. I guess some times it can take a little longer.

John

fly944 · 06-18-2002, 09:09 AM

'If I recall I remember seeing somewhere that it helped if you raised the front of the car as high as possible and leave the rear on the ground.

bigyagi · bigyagi's Garage

i had the"pleasure", of replacing my clutch master cylinder, last weekend {last one lasted 8 months, then started to leak again!}
i raised the front end only, and managed to attach a rubber hose, to the slave cylinder, with out removing the starter. girlfriend pushing the pedal, with me opening, and closing the bleed nipple . only took a couple of mins, for nice clean fluid, with no air bubbles. job done! hope it lasts more than 8 months this time!