<div dir="ltr">As I asked in a separate email, are you sure you don't have mixed synthetic and non-synthetic? I accidentally did that and my clutch was bad in 2 weeks.<div><br></div><div>Also, I do not recall on the Tiger. But I know on the Alpine, there are two holes on the slave. They are the same, just one up and one down. The top one is for the bleed valve. The bottom one is for the pipe from the MC. There are numerous times that Alpine guys have accidentally swapped them - putting the bleeder on the bottom. That makes it impossible to bleed well. Could that happen on a Tiger?</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 12:37 PM, Richard Bruner via Tigers <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">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.<br>
<br>
<br>
On Wed, August 8, 2018 2:27 pm, Stu wrote:<br>
> How did you bleed it, by pumping the master or by vacuum or air
pressure?<br>
> If by pumping the master, then it can apply at least some pressure to
the<br>
> system. Does the pedal go to the floor or not go down at all? Can
you<br>
> manually pull the slave piston in and out?<br>
><br>
> The system is pretty simple, so troubleshooting should be easy.<br>
><br>
> Stu<br>
><br>
> On Wed, Aug 8, 2018 at 1:37 PM, Richard Bruner via Tigers <<br>
> <a href="mailto:tigers@autox.team.net" target="_blank">tigers@autox.team.net</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
>> The clutch on my 1966 would work for awhile after bleeding it,
but not<br>
>> for<br>
>> very long, so today I replaced the clutch master cylinder
(found<br>
>> evidence<br>
>> of leakage when removing the old one), slave cylinder and hard
line, and<br>
>> bled the air out of the system. I am still not getting any
movement of<br>
>> the<br>
>> clutch slave push rod. Any suggestions? The master cylinder and
slave<br>
>> came from Victoria British, if that makes any difference.<br>
>><br>
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