While it is theoretically possible to push air out the bottom of a slave
cylinder, you cannot move the fluid fast enough. The air will float up in the
cylinder faster then you can move the fluid out. This is also why it's
virtually impossible to bleed brakes at the wheel cylinder if you replace a
vertical section of line. Install it with the bleed nipple at the top.
There is a trick you may want to consider if you find it impossibly difficult
to get at the bleed nipple. That is to run remove the nipple and run a section
of line from the hole to a convenient location on the firewall, and install a
block or cap on the end of the line out there. Then you can bleed the cylinder
remotely and more easily.
>>> "Gary Hutton" <hutton@evansville.net> 06/12 10:34 AM >>>
Also, my bleed
screw was on the bottom - air obviously rises, but shouldn't the
pressure of the bleed procedure still force the air out the bleed screw
no matter where it is positioned?
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