> Kirk, > > The book says that this system must be power bled. However, I rplaced the clutch slave and managed to manually bleed it the way you seem to be trying to. > > 1) Be sure the resevoir is kept full during the process. > > 2) Be persistent. I only got a tiny bit of air the first 25 > clutch strokes. It probably took 50 strokes to do the whole > job! > I have had good luck bleeding VW hydraulic clutches using a MITIVAC vacuum assisted bleeder, bled our '86 Vanagon, and my '86 Quantum. Still I always figured they could be bled using standard techniques. With the vacuum pump, simply attach pump up the vacuum, open the vavlve and depress the pedal slightly, results are excellent.\ John ja@coe.wvu.edu '71 Westy Virginia, '90 Corrado G60
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