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An alternative way to bleed clutch hydraulics... Posted by Walt [Email]  (#2707) [Profile/Gallery]
(more from Walt) on Sun, 24 Apr 2005 13:58:58
In Reply to: Thanks!, Phil Smith, Sun, 24 Apr 2005 09:35:05 Members do not see ads below this line. - Help Keep This Site Online - Signup |
is to use a 60 cc or larger enteric syringe avvailable from drugstore or surgical supply pharmacy. Disconnect reservoir feed line to clutch M/C and plug bottom fitting to reservoir. Connect M/C feed line to spout of syringe. Pour fresh brake fluid into large end of syringe and don't let it tip over. Slightly open bleed fitting on clutch slave cylinder and run a 1/4 inch clean ID Tygon hose into a jar to receive spent fluid. Install plunger into top of syringe and press down until air reaches bottom of spout. If fluid doesn't easily inject, you need to crack slave cylinder bleed screw more. Disconnect spout from M/C feed line and remove plunger. Connect spout back to feed line, fill up syringe, and plunge it down again. Do this until fluid coming out of slave is same color as fresh fluid in syringe. Now hydraulics are clean, but you still have an air bubble in M/C. To get it out do the same thing backwards. That means putting syringe on Tygon tube at slave cylinder, installing tygon on black line at M/C to make bubbles visible, filling syringe at slave, and using plunger to force fluid back into M/C. It helps dislodge any bubbles if you gently tap clutch pedal during the reverse bleed. When bubble(s) stop coming out M/C Tygon line, system is bled. Lock down bleed screw at slave and reconnect M/C line to brake reservoir. Clutch pedal should be hard. If you've just installed new clutch, press pedal just enough to release pressure plate spacer and not more, or else you may pop slave apart and have to replace it.
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