[TR] Bleeding Clutch Slave Cylinder

[Mark Steph]

Wouldn't this depend on how the slave cylinder was situated?  What I 
mean is: which is higher, the bleed screw or the hydraulic line?  On a 
TR6 you can definitely install it either way.  In the 25 years I have 
had mine, the bleed screw has always been on top -- where the bubbles 
should rise.

Now whether that is correct or incorrect, I am not 100% sure.  But I 
have always bled the darn thing by crawling on my belly.  If it could be 
done just as well by pumping and waiting, then I deserve a palm to the 
forehead.

Vin Marshall wrote:
> 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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