[Healeys] BJ 8 Clutch Question

[sbyers]

Last summer, during our return to North Carolina from Conclave in San Diego,
my traveling companion complained that his clutch wasn't working well in the
high mountains of Colorado.  He thought he had some air in the lines that
was expanding at altitude.  At the next NAPA store we came to, we bought
some silicone fluid and a length of clear plastic tubing.   With the Mr.
Finespanner bleeder extension installed on George's car, it was a snap to
bleed the clutch and after that the clutch worked fine.  I would have hated
to try to do that job without the bleeder extension.  Great piece of kit.

Steve Byers
HBJ8L/36666
BJ8 Registry
Havelock, NC  USA

-----Original Message-----
From: healeys-bounces at autox.team.net [mailto:healeys-bounces at autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of John Sims
Sent: Sunday, April 05, 2009 12:26 PM
To: STOCKLAND at aol.com; healeys at autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ 8 Clutch Question

OK. Here's the deal. For about 35-40 bucks you can buy the clutch slave
cylinder bleed extension which will, in the future save you a lot of
aggravation as you will then be able to bleed from inside the engine
compartment with no strain or pain. This extends the bleed line to above the
oil filter. Email Doug Reid at: mrfinespanner at earthlink.net. I would suggest
that you go ahead and get this before you start to bleed if you are willing
to wait a week or so. Then, use a speed bleeder at the tip of it and you can
bleed by yourself. No financial interest, yadda yadda yadda just a very
happy customer of Doug's

If you want to do it right now, you can get to the bleeder by pulling your
tranny cover or by underneath the car but you need small fingers.

John Sims, BN6
Aberdeen, NJ
 
www.healey6.com