Another clutch bleeding thread, sorry
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Staging Lane
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From: Mpls,MN
Another clutch bleeding thread, sorry I'm having issues when trying to get pressure in the clutch pedal.
brake down. all in a 350z.
I have a sikky wilwood master cylinder w/ the sikky braided lines. Going into a GM slave cylinder/throwout bearing(F-body), magnum T-56, Mcleod RXT clutch and flywheel. Stock nissan 350z clutch pedal.
Ok so with it all hooked up, master to slave & slave to bleeder.
I fill up clutch master reservoir, get under car with a cup of brake fluid. I have a buddy press in the clutch pedal, then I crack open the bleeder valve submerse into cup of BF and buddy starts pumping the clutch nice and slowly. Well been doing that for a couple of days and it doesn't seem to do anything. Air in line doesn't seem to go away.
Brake fluid doesn't/hasn't come out of the clutch master reservoir at all. With the bleeder cap off, line in a cup of BF and pumping the clutch pedal, fluid doesn't come out the clutch master reservoir. at a loss.
I have been messing around with adjusting the clutch pedal rod, seems the same weather the rod is extended or shortened.
The lines did get pinched when installing the trans, I wonder if the lines got punctured that's why I am getting air.
brake down. all in a 350z.
I have a sikky wilwood master cylinder w/ the sikky braided lines. Going into a GM slave cylinder/throwout bearing(F-body), magnum T-56, Mcleod RXT clutch and flywheel. Stock nissan 350z clutch pedal.
Ok so with it all hooked up, master to slave & slave to bleeder.
I fill up clutch master reservoir, get under car with a cup of brake fluid. I have a buddy press in the clutch pedal, then I crack open the bleeder valve submerse into cup of BF and buddy starts pumping the clutch nice and slowly. Well been doing that for a couple of days and it doesn't seem to do anything. Air in line doesn't seem to go away.
Brake fluid doesn't/hasn't come out of the clutch master reservoir at all. With the bleeder cap off, line in a cup of BF and pumping the clutch pedal, fluid doesn't come out the clutch master reservoir. at a loss.
I have been messing around with adjusting the clutch pedal rod, seems the same weather the rod is extended or shortened.
The lines did get pinched when installing the trans, I wonder if the lines got punctured that's why I am getting air.
Last edited by 323z; Apr 25, 2016 at 08:24 PM.
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Staging Lane
Joined: Dec 2015
Posts: 66
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From: Mpls,MN
Thanks for the reply guy's.
I do have a mityvac and have looked at the video a bunch, only hic-up is the hole on my reservoir is on the side bottom not bottom bottom. It makes getting to it and creating a seal real hard. I have used/tried all the fitting. The rubber 90* boot worked. but after no more bubbles, pedal didn't feel any different.
looks like a little bit of brake fluid on the bottom of the bell housing, maybe weeping from the slave/throw out bearing.
This is drving me nuts. I am reading/researching 4-5 hours a night, for 3 nights now.
First I though it was because of a loose fitting. I disconnected the GM quick connect fitting and put the adapter fitting in. And thought after putting the pin back in that the new fitting felt a little loose, but to read that's normal.
KInd of at a loss as to why when I crack the bleeder open on the slave/throw out bearing and pump the clutch a handfull of times I get no fluid coming from the master cylinder reservoir. So it's not bleeding for some reason.
I do have a mityvac and have looked at the video a bunch, only hic-up is the hole on my reservoir is on the side bottom not bottom bottom. It makes getting to it and creating a seal real hard. I have used/tried all the fitting. The rubber 90* boot worked. but after no more bubbles, pedal didn't feel any different.
looks like a little bit of brake fluid on the bottom of the bell housing, maybe weeping from the slave/throw out bearing.
This is drving me nuts. I am reading/researching 4-5 hours a night, for 3 nights now.
First I though it was because of a loose fitting. I disconnected the GM quick connect fitting and put the adapter fitting in. And thought after putting the pin back in that the new fitting felt a little loose, but to read that's normal.
KInd of at a loss as to why when I crack the bleeder open on the slave/throw out bearing and pump the clutch a handfull of times I get no fluid coming from the master cylinder reservoir. So it's not bleeding for some reason.
