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Old 10-14-2012, 08:04 AM
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Originally Posted by patrickt View Post
If you have the slave bleeder screw open, and the tube on the bleeder, going in to a jar you can't miss telling that the master cylinder is squirting a nice flow of fluid when someone pumps the pedal. I mean you really can't miss it. It will be as plain and obvious as the nose on your face and that will tell you that the master cylinder is working right. If you can't get that far, then the problem is "upstream" from the slave cylinder.
Actually, once I got the bleeder on top I opened it up and it started gravity feeder into the jar (with air) so well that I just short-stroked the clutch pedal shaft lever under the car (per Bob's Manual) and didn't have to touch the pedal. As noted that only took a couple minutes. Maybe I need to crack the bleeder port again and try stroking the pedal now. Holding the pedal down hard, there is still a little free play in the rod so I know it's not in the clutch itself.
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