Date:         Wed, 28 Oct 1998 22:11:11 -0600
Reply-To:     Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@vanagon.com>
From:         Joshua Van Tol <jjvantol@USWEST.NET>
Subject:      Re: installing new clutch slave cylinder
Comments: To: Tom Young <young@SHERLOCK.SIMS.BERKELEY.EDU>, vanagon@vanagon.com
In-Reply-To:  <Pine.OSF.3.91.981028170720.14106A-100000@Sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU>
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>On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 DAPrescott@AOL.COM wrote:
>
>> Replacement is fairly straight forward, but the Bentley manual tells you to
>> use a pressure bleeder.  I didn't.  I used the old partner method.  This was
>> OK until about a month later, when my clutch began to fail.  I figured, OK,
>> two cylinders, now the clutch.  I went to my VW mechanic, and he gave me a
>> tongue lashing.  Seems the use of the pressure bleeder is necessary,
>>else bad
>> things happen in the nether parts of the system.  He pressure-bled the
>>system,
>> and the bad things went away.
>
>
>Did he happen to mention WHY you must use a pressure bleeder?  I've bled
>the system using the SO as the "pressure", and never had a bit of a
>problem.  Off hand, the "must use a pressure bleeder" doesn't make sense
>to me.
>
>
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>Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
>Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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Well, if you use a pressure bleeder, you are assured of properly bleeding
the system. However, you can do just as well with the "partner" method,
provided you are careful.

Joshua Van Tol -- jjvantol@lear.csp.ee.memphis.edu