Re: Opinions wanted on "new" clutch bleeding procedure (was Need helpbleeding cutch)

[quk@isham-research.demon.co.uk (Phil Payne)]

In message <379485FF.83A35DDA@est.org> Avram Dorfman writes:

> 1) remove the slave cylinder (1 bolt, but kinda hard to get to)

Heh.  Yes.  Try it on a RHD ur-quattro - six hours.

> 7) reinstall the cylinder (takes some effort b/c you have to compress it
> in an awkward position to get it in place)

Awkward position?  You don't know you're BORN!

> Now that I know how it should be done, it would probably be easy to
> reverse the procedure, putting a tube from the bleeder into a bottle of
> fluid, having the slave suck fluid in from the bottle, closing the
> bleeder, and using compressing the cylinder to push fluid through the
> system into the reservoir.

> What we did seems to have worked fine though. Any thoughts?

Easier to just adjust the clevis actuator rod so that depressing the
pedal causes the piston to travel the whole length of the cylinder.

That's what your real problem was - air in the master cylinder.  If you
look at the angle at which the master cylinder is mounted, air can
remain in the upper sector of the cylinder and not go automatically
back up the line to the reservior - the whole thing is at an angle.

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