Date: Thu, 6 Mar 2008 08:52:42 -0500
Reply-To: Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
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From: Ed McLean <email99@BELLSOUTH.NET>
Subject: Re: clutch bleeding
I agree with Scott that the traditional tube-in-a-bottle method, keeping the
end of the tube below the level of the waste fluid, works well. However, I
have found that the Speed-Bleeder check valve (www.speedbleeder.com) works
great and makes this even easier. Just put a tube on the SpeedBleeder bleed
screw as before, crack open the SpeedBleeder screw and pump the clutch
peddle while keeping the reservoir full. When the brake fluid coming out of
the tube is clean and bubble free your clutch system has been flushed and
bled. Then just tighten the SpeedBleeder. This is now a one person job and
you don't have to keep opening and closing the bleed screw in that cramped
place (although this isn't absolutely necessary if the end of the tube stays
covered).
If your clutch needs to be bled in an emergency repair where you don't have
a tube, you can just cover the top of the SpeedBleeder and just let it drip
onto some paper under the transmission.
Don't forget to close the bleed screw!
These also work on brakes but make sure you close ALL the SpeedBleeder
screws because you won't have brakes if you don't! Check each one twice!
SpeedBleeders are available and any FLAPS.
For filling the brake fluid reservoir I poke a small hole in the cap of the
brake fluid bottle This allows you to turn the bottle over and squirt it
into the reservoir without spilling fluid all over the place. You can get a
cap from that old bottle of brake fluid you have sitting around that you
know you shouldn't use anyway.
Ed
On Wed, 5 Mar 2008 17:59:13 -0800, Scott Daniel - Shazam
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM> wrote:
>He easiest way in my book is just put your bleed hose on the slave ( I use
>the clear hose in a bottle method, with the end of the hose below the level
>of old brake fluid in the bottle - and the clear hose lets you watch for
>bubbles )
>But just hook up your rig and give it nice smooth strokes, like 10 or so,
>unless it needs more. Nice fresh brake fluid too of course.
>Scott
>www.turbovans.com