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How is all the air in the M/C pipe to slave going to escape? Is there enough excess fluid in the fully extended slave to fill that whole length of pipe?
More than enough as the M/C and pipe are already full as you have capped the pipe end. Any air above the slave self bleeds into the res.
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OK- I guess I didn't comprehend this the first time. So, when you disconnect the slave at the pipe, some fluid will dribble out. You cap the pipe. Bench bleed the slave. Uncap the pipe. More fluid dribbles out, but that is replaced from the reservoir (?) and from excess in the slave when the piston is pushed home.
I'll give it a try next time ( I hope there is no next time).
I used the caliper to slave method once and it worked like a charm and then another time and I was within an ace of junking the car.
It is nice to have alternate methods. As I said in another post, they should have made hydraulics out of clear materials so we could see what we are doing.
Rick