Fitted a new slave to my Sprite yesterday (and I fitted the slave the day
before but bled it yesterday).
After a lot a arsing round I wedge the rod all the way back into the slave
and used a socket on the bleed nipple with one hand while using a down open
nipple, hold down, shut nipple, up and repeat until I got a decent pedal.
However, the thrust bearing is almost shot and I'm hoping it will last long
enough (about 800 miles) before I pull the current engine and replace it wth a
replacement.
Clutch rod is non-standard and because the clutch is as marginal with the new
slave as the old one I'll be putting a drop of weld on the end of it to give
that bit of extra length lost by the carbon bearing wearing down to almost
nothing.
Daniel1312
In a message dated 07/06/06 11:46:16 GMT Daylight Time,
kristi74midget@comcast.net writes:
> I was driving the car yesterday and all of a sudden it was pretty
> hard to shift the car into first and second gear so I drove her home
> right away. I checked the oil level in the tranny. It was fine even
> overflowing when I took the screw/bolt out. So we figured that meant
> that there was enough oil in there that we did not have to fill it
> anymore. SO then we decided to try and bleed the clutch. Yeah you
> all forgot to mention that doing this was going to be such a pain in
> the ass. Anyway we went and got a "one-man bleed system" for the
> brakes (easy bleed). Well that seemed to work now the only problem
> is that I have no pressure with the clutch peddle. There were no air
> bubbles in the little tube so we tightened up the bleeder nipple
> thinking all was fine and we were done. Then I sat down and tried
> the clutch peddle. Straight to the floor with no pressure at all.
> Lambert even said that when he put his finger on the bleeder nipple
> and he felt no pressure at all. I am getting liquid out but still no
> pressure. We tried again but still nothing. How we found out was we
> tried to drive the car around the block and I stalled it because the
> clutch is not engaging. Any suggestions?
|