[TR] Bleeding Clutch Slave Cylinder

[Vin Marshall]

For what it's worth, that is the specified way to bleed the clutch  
hydraulic circuit on my 1988 F-450, and a bleeder screw is not even  
provided.

Definitely not intuitive if you've never encountered it before.  And  
it is dark out.  And you are making a repair on the side of the road.

-vin


> From: "Roger Wilson" <Roger at rw-architect.com>
>> Are you saying to bleed the clutch by pumping it without opening the
>> bleed valve?
>
> That absolutely worked for me after I replaced the clutch slave  
> cylinder on my Miata.  The system had emtied itself out when the  
> old clutch slave cylinder failed.  I bolted in a new clutch slave  
> cylinder, then filled the reservoir.  I sat in the car jumping up  
> and down on the clutch pedal for about ten minutes.  Never did  
> touch the bleed screw.
>
> I had another Miata guy tells me that this cannot happen and I must  
> have a magic car.  I don't think that's true.  :-)
>






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