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928: Serial Enabler
 
Join Date: Sep 2007
Location: Elkhart, Indiana
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Originally Posted by gibson36 View Post
Ok I was told I needed a 10" mc and thats what I got .... I sent them the new slave yesterday so maybe that will fix the problem ... also should they need to bleed that from inside even with a pressure bleeder machine ? ?

The 10" master may have had a design change to limit travel, that's what others have found. Stan reported that shaving the piston works to remedy.

The MC is installed on an angle. It gets airlocked. There is no way to even angle the car safely to overcome the crazy mount angle.

(If you look at brake calipers, the bleed screws are at the top of the units to aid bleed. Something overlooked in the 928 clutch master design/mount process.)

Pressure bleeder has never worked for me on clutch.
From either above or below.
But the cockpit bleed has.


These cars are so well engineered in general that the design flaws stand out. This is one of them.

Its also interesting to see the little clusters of failure modes develop with age of the cars. Like the insulation in the headlight electrical circuit, where the headlight goes up/down. After 25 years, it breaks.
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