clutch pressure bleed but not vacuum bleed?

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Stephane

When I replace the clutch in my 89 200TQ I bleed the cylinders by hand.
When I had the trans, out I removed the clutch slave
cyl. and took it apart and cleaned it out.  There was a bunch of black goo
inside.  After reinstalling it I filled up the master cyl. with fluid
I attached a hose to the bleeder valve of the slave,  I would loosen the
valve and then push in the rod then close the valve and let the rod come out.

After 5 or 10 times I got clean brake fluid and all the air out of the
system.  I made sure there the master cyl. was toped off during the process.
It worked like a champ and was easy because there was not trans. in the way
when I bleed it.


Pat Korach
Kirkland, WA

Levels, Stephanie wrote:

> All the archives talk about pressure bleeder.  Does this mean that vacuum
> bleeding will not work or just that no one does it that way?
>
> My car is an 86 5ktq
>
> Stephane