CLUTCH issues!

[86manche207]

so i installed a new master cylinder and i listened to my friend who worked for a mechanic shop for the past few years and he said that i wouldnt have to bleed it or anything and i could just install it and be good. well he was wrong..... the clutch doesnt work i do not know a whole lot about this stuff. i have common sense and can figure stuff out with a little input.

i have an external slave does anyone know of a video that might help me or just some knowledge on doing this i know that the slave cylinder is tough one to get to and see. thanks in advance

[88whitemanche]

Ok I can't find the video but the guy had the master cylinder on a vice at a 45 degree angle and added fluid and open the bleed valve on the slave cylinder until fluid kept coming out....

Then keep pushing the rod in the slave until you don't see anymore bubbles then install....

[yxmj]

[86manche207]

 

thanks but both are already installed..... i feel like there has to be an easier way to do it with out removing them..

[yxmj]

Yes...why not google bleed clutch?....it is a simple thing...open the bleeder screw...have a helper press and hold the clutch....close the bleeder....repeat 3 or 4 times until you have a strong stream of clean fluid coming out....close and tighten the screw...try the clutch...

[86manche207]

Thanks for the advice read like 30 other fourum post and Google stuff people had luck just pumping the clutch a bunch of times. And if I was to bleed I would have had to take the slave off and flip it because it was impossible to get a wrench on there to open and close. But the good news clutch works with just around twenty pumps. So master can be installed without bleeding. Again thanks for the post

[88whitemanche]

To be honest from personal experience from bleeding the external slave is better to bleed it outside the truck...

I busted through 3 slave cylinders where the rod shot out and landed inside the bell housing and it was a ____ to take out....

I just recently did this about a month ago....

[Jeepjeff859]

I have always taken a small bit of tubing and put one end in a half empty bottle of fluid making sure it's submerged and the other end on the bleeder valve and just pumped refilled and pumped, hasn't not worked yet just have to make sure the master doesn't run out of fluid

[mule5]

All I ever do when I bleed a system I open the bleed valve and continue to pour fluid in the cylinder until it runs clear without any bubbles I've never had a problem doing it this way. Good luck

[Jeepjeff859]

I usually do gravity bleeding like that for brakes but if it works it works

[Knucklehead97]

Every time I've done it I just opened the bleeder and gravity bled a whole bottle of fluid through it. Worked great for me! Probably would be quicker to have someone press the pedal... But my friends don't like working on vehicles, so I'm alone most of the time :D

[Jeepjeff859]

What I liked about my 2.5 ax4 combo was a ratchet and extension could reach the bleeder screw from the cab so I could do all the pedal pushing my self

[86manche207]

i ended up just having to pump the clutch a bunch of times and it worked out good.

[87MJTIM]

Can you put a speed bleed on the end of the clutch line?  It would help us "one man" mechanics.

[yxmj]

Can you put a speed bleed on the end of the clutch line?  It would help us "one man" mechanics.

 

I have thought this myself but never tried it....i don't see why it would not work.....same principle......