
06-01-2012, 10:54 PM
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Originally Posted by woodrat
Weird. That was my original thought, but the fluid level doesn't seem to drop, and I can't see any leakage anywhere.
That sounds better than what I've been doing, which is what was recommended to me here last summer when I first replaced the MC. I have a long piece of injector return line, and hose clamps, and I connect the bleeder on the right front caliper to the bleeder on the slave cylinder, open the both up, and pump the brakes a bunch of times. I close the bleeders as my helper is pushing the pedal down, then check to see if the clutch is better. It usually tightens up pretty quickly, but won't stay. I actually don't know how quickly it loses it, because my wife drives this car lately, and she is notorious for not noticing these things until they are nearly un-usable.
I just did it again today, and I think if it doesn't stay this time, I'm taking the whole system apart again, and going through it and seeing if there is a small leak somewhere that I haven't seen yet.
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Using the brakes to bleed the clutch was the standard procedure on big trucks back in the seventies.
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