Greg in Oz, Did you say the clutch master was made out of plastic? That sounds scary.

I just changed my master in my left-hand-drive car (the new one was metal) and those two securing nuts for the master cylinder were still impossible to access. I took the pedal assy out too and I agree it isn't as hard as it sounds. The funny thing is now it doesn't come high enough to push the cruse control switch.

Bleeding can be successful any way you do it, I guess using a vacuum pump is as good a way as any, but the easiest way is to back bleed it through the slave. I used my compressor to force the fluid it and that worked quite nicely.

Duke2.6: did you mean you are going to put your car in winter storage in May?