[TR] TR3 Clutch Won't Bleed

[wbeech at flash.net]

No, don't blame your wife because you are going to need her again bleed the
brakes too!  I am at the same point, tried last night and had nothing.  

Try This: Take all the adjustment out of your pedal, by screwing the rod all
the way in and letting the pedal adjuster all the way out, so you have the
maximum stroke for the piston, then give it a try to see if it pumps up for
you.  From there you can adjust it in to where the travel is right. To begin
with, you want the piston to star as far forward (out of) the master
cylinder sleeve as you can.

All the best,
Bill

Bill Beecher
'58 TR-3A TS/30766 L (rolling restoration) www.triumphowners.com/1566
"A Triumph is man's best friend, it always comes when it is called...of
course, some times it is difficult to make it go"





-----Original Message-----
From: triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net
[mailto:triumphs-bounces at autox.team.net] On Behalf Of Geo Hahn
Sent: Saturday, March 06, 2010 4:55 PM
To: Triumphs
Subject: [TR] TR3 Clutch Won't Bleed

For years I have read posts about problems bleeding the clutch and have been
mystified how this could be as it always worked fine for me.
 Until now.

It started as a routine adjustment check and bleed -- but it wouldn't pump
up.

I have now replaced everything rubber (MC rebuild kit, Slave rebuild kit &
hose) and still I get the dead pedal, no fluid pumping.

I have tried bleeding it with the slave dangling rather than mounted.

Can it be that there is air in that bit of hard line from the reservoir to
the MC that will not move on?

I have never done a bench-bleed -- could that be needed?  Would undoing the
inlet and outlet pipes on the MC and use eye-dropper to fill the cylinder
make sense.

I did rig up a pressure cap for the reservoir and introduced about 10# of
air pressure, no joy.

What's really frustrating is that at one point (after the new hose and MC
seals) I had it working but was getting a tiny leak from the slave and that
is when I decided to go ahead and redo it too.  Now I'm back to nada.

Failing a solution I'll take any rationale that blames my wife (though she
has been a real good sport spending way too much time in the drivers seat
doing the pedal work).

Thanks for any help.

Geo

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