Clutch Bleeding - Help, AIR!!!
11-01-2002, 10:15 AM
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I don't have time to read all the responses to see if anyone has given you this info yet, but here's how you do it (you need two people):
1. Jack up the car.
2. Put a box end wrench on the bleeder valve on the clutch slave cylinder. Attach a neoprene hose to the nipple and put the other end of the hose in an empty water bottle.
3. Open the clutch fluid resevoir in your engine bay and top it off.
4. Open the bleeder valve.
5. Have your assistant depress the clutch pedal all the way down and hold it there.
6. Close the bleeder valve.
7. Tell your assistant to release their foot from the clutch pedal (I can't remember, but I think you might need to actually pull it back up).
8. Repeat steps 4-7 a few times, then check to make sure the fluid resevoir is still topped off. Keep doing 4-7 and topping off the resevoir until you don't see any air bubbles coming out in your water bottle anymore.
That should do it. If this doesn't work, you might have a hole in the soft line to the slave cylinder or (worse yet) in one of your hard lines (not good).
BTW, anyone know how one goes about becoming a writer for a car magazine? I'm getting sick of law school and I would really rather test drive cars and write about them then be a lawyer :-/
1. Jack up the car.
2. Put a box end wrench on the bleeder valve on the clutch slave cylinder. Attach a neoprene hose to the nipple and put the other end of the hose in an empty water bottle.
3. Open the clutch fluid resevoir in your engine bay and top it off.
4. Open the bleeder valve.
5. Have your assistant depress the clutch pedal all the way down and hold it there.
6. Close the bleeder valve.
7. Tell your assistant to release their foot from the clutch pedal (I can't remember, but I think you might need to actually pull it back up).
8. Repeat steps 4-7 a few times, then check to make sure the fluid resevoir is still topped off. Keep doing 4-7 and topping off the resevoir until you don't see any air bubbles coming out in your water bottle anymore.
That should do it. If this doesn't work, you might have a hole in the soft line to the slave cylinder or (worse yet) in one of your hard lines (not good).
BTW, anyone know how one goes about becoming a writer for a car magazine? I'm getting sick of law school and I would really rather test drive cars and write about them then be a lawyer :-/
11-01-2002, 11:52 AM
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[QUOTE]Originally posted by The Reverend
[B]I don't have time to read all the responses to see if anyone has given you this info yet, but here's how you do it (you need two people):
1.
[B]I don't have time to read all the responses to see if anyone has given you this info yet, but here's how you do it (you need two people):
1.
11-02-2002, 07:15 AM
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Originally posted by gernby
Item 3 should be revised to include sucking the old, dirty fluid out of the reservoir before topping it back off, instead of mixing new fluid in with the old (in the reservoir).
Item 3 should be revised to include sucking the old, dirty fluid out of the reservoir before topping it back off, instead of mixing new fluid in with the old (in the reservoir).
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