Bleeding My Clutch?
find the slave cylinder. buy some dot3 or dot 4 fluid. Get a friend to help you. Find teh bleeder valve on the slave cylinder. Get an open end wrench to fit it. Make sure the clutch master resevoir is full of enough fluid. Have your friend push the clutch in. Then release the bleeder valve and teh pressure will come out. It will have a little snap and some crackling if their is air in the lines. You dont want to loosen the valve to much or it will spray all over the place. So loosen it just enough to let air out. Once the pressure is relieved, tighten the bleeder valve and tell ur friend to let up on the clutch pedal and press it down again. Then loosen the bleeder valve. And so on untill no air is heard escaping. Only fluid will come out if all the air is out of the lines. Make sure and close the bleeder valve before letting the clutch pedal up or alot of air will be sucked into the line.
If you dont know what the slave cylinder looks like here is a pic.
If you dont know what the slave cylinder looks like here is a pic.
heres another way...
put a vacuum hose on the bleeder and the other end submersed in about an inch of brake fluid in an otherwise empty bottle. open the bleeder screw, have a friend ready to keep the resivoir filled up at the master cylinder, grab the clutch pedal with your hand and pump it in and out till you feel a steady pressure pushing out the bleeder. pull the pedal back to normal position, tighten the bleeder and fill the resivoir.
keeping the hose on the other end submersed keeps air from being sucked into the slave without having to tighten/loosen the screw all the time.
Both ways will work fine, this is just how I do it when I change motors.
put a vacuum hose on the bleeder and the other end submersed in about an inch of brake fluid in an otherwise empty bottle. open the bleeder screw, have a friend ready to keep the resivoir filled up at the master cylinder, grab the clutch pedal with your hand and pump it in and out till you feel a steady pressure pushing out the bleeder. pull the pedal back to normal position, tighten the bleeder and fill the resivoir.
keeping the hose on the other end submersed keeps air from being sucked into the slave without having to tighten/loosen the screw all the time.
Both ways will work fine, this is just how I do it when I change motors.
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