[Tigers] Clutch Hydraulics

[Richard Bruner]

After a trip to the eye doctor this morning for a corneal abrasion due to
rust somehow falling around my safety glasses and into my eye yesterday
while I was under the car, I tried a different master cylinder this
afternoon and everything is now functioning properly.  Thanks once
again to everyone for their help!





On Wed, August 8, 2018 2:37 pm, Richard Bruner via Tigers wrote:

>

>

> I bench bled the master cylinder before installing.  I had a
helper

> press the pedal while I opened and closed the bleeder.  Air
came

> through the clear tubing I used before fluid with no
air/bubbles.  I

> ran another 1/2 bottle of fluid through it after that just to be

> sure.  The pedal goes to the floor with no resistance.  I
have

> not tried pulling the slave piston in/out.

>

>

>

>

>

> On Wed, August 8, 2018 2:27 pm, Stu wrote:

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>> How did you bleed it, by pumping the master or by vacuum or
air

> pressure?

>

>> If by pumping the master, then it can apply at least some
pressure to

> the

>

>> system. Does the pedal go to the floor or not go down at all?
Can

> you

>

>> manually pull the slave piston in and out?

>

>>

>

>> The system is pretty simple, so troubleshooting should be
easy.

>

>>

>

>> Stu

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>>

>

>> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Richard Bruner via Tigers <

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>> tigers at autox.team.net> wrote:

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>>

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>>> The clutch on my 1966 would work for awhile after bleeding
it,

> but not

>

>>> for

>

>>> very long, so today I replaced the clutch master cylinder

> (found

>

>>> evidence

>

>>> of leakage when removing the old one), slave cylinder and
hard

> line, and

>

>>> bled the air out of the system. I am still not getting any

> movement of

>

>>> the

>

>>> clutch slave push rod. Any suggestions? The master cylinder
and

> slave

>

>>> came from Victoria British, if that makes any difference.

>

>>>

>

>>> Richard

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