Date:         Sun, 23 Nov 2003 12:38:04 -0600
Reply-To:     John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From:         John Rodgers <jh_rodgers@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject:      Re: Brake hose-pinching device
Comments: To: Jeffrey Earl <jefferrata@YAHOO.COM>
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You want to flush your system when you do this. Easiest way is to get a
long piuece of plastic tubing from the hobby shop, or pet shop, long
enough to reach frrom the brake/clutch fluid reservoir to the ground.
Put one end in a large soda bottle on the ground beside the door, the
other end in the top of the reservoir, and start a suction on the
plastic tube. The reservoir will drain right out. Use a clear bottle and
you can see the fluid.

After replacing my clutch mastercylinder I filled the system with clean
fluid and bled the brakes all around. I was amazed a the crud ..... and
water, expecially water....in the system. It is a good thing I think to
periodically flush the system by bleeding all brakes.

After replacing the clutch master cylinder, the line does not have to be
bled as such. Rapid pumping of the clutch about fifty times will remove
the air ......the clutch system is self bleeding, but it does require
that pumping action for many strokes.

BTDT

Regards,

John Rodgers
88 GL Driver

Jeffrey Earl wrote:

>I need to replace my clutch master cylinder sometime
>soon, and most of the outlines I've seen for this
>procedure involve messing around with your mother's
>turkey baster to empty the brake/clutch fluid
>reservoir. This sounds kinda sloppy and
>time-consuming.
>
>Hoping this job turns out better than my last
>Thanksgiving Day dinner, I am wondering if anyone else
>has made use of a hose-pinching device to prevent the
>fluid from draining from the reservoir while working
>on the MC? I saw one in the auto-parts store but am
>confident I can improvise one using a Vice-Grips and a
>couple sections of a split 1/2-inch wooden dowel to
>prevent damage to the rubber hose. Kind of a
>large-scale hemostat.
>
>Seems like this would allow a mere teaspoon or so of
>fluid to drain out while doing the MC swap, and would
>mean less air in the system to bleed out later.
>
>Thoughts?
>
>Jeffrey Earl
>1983 diesel Westfalia "Vanasazi"
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