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I bleed and bleed and still don't have a good pedal :(

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Old 02-06-2012, 11:07 AM
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Out of no where a couple months ago I completely lost my clutch pedal, so I decided to replace the M/C and slave cylinder. Finished replacing both and still don't have a great pedal. It shifts, but the clutch engages right off the floor sometimes feels like its not disengaging all the way. I've bleed nearly a gallon of fluid through the system and it dosnt seem to get any better. Also, I notice that every time I bleed the system again, the fluid thats in the remote reseviour is very dirty, like its been there for 50k miles. the fluid should be clean since the m/c and slave have been replaced less than 2,000 miles ago right? It dosnt leak anywhere so Im thinking air could be getting into the system but from where?
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The only way I could get mine all to bleed out was the mighty vac into the master cylinder. I tried every way known and that was the only one that worked for me...
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i honestly have no idea what is so hard about bleeding the clutch... it could be that i used a speed bleeder line or whatever but seriously there was nothing special about it. I will say that i did let the system "rest" for a minute or so between pumps. It wasnt anything like bleeding brakes.. if i just pumped up the pedal fast and didnt give any time between the bleeding nothing really came out. but if i let it sit then pump it up and bled it a bunch of fluid would come out... nice thing about the speed bleeder is that i put the fluid right back into the reservoir. took less then 30 minutes and didnt have to use mity vac or any **** like that.



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