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Old 10-20-2007, 01:54 PM
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Default Here's Exactly How to Do It (using a tool you already have)

Since you have a leak somewhere you're probably going to have to bleed more than once, so it's handy to learn a way to do it yourself (without a pressure or vacuum assisting tool). My tool of choice is a broomstick. You can do the job yourself by using a broomstick with the sweeping straw end still attached, just like it is when it sits in the corner of your garage. Here's how to do it: Get under your car and stick one end of a plastic tube on the end of the slave bleed screw (the screw has a hole in the middle of it) and put the other end of the tube in an empty mayonnaise jar. Fill the clutch fluid reservoir up and then press the clutch pedal with the wood end of your broom and wedge it against the seat using the straw end. Go under the car and open the bleed screw on the slave cylinder. You'll hear a "puff" and you might see a little fluid go in the mayonnaise jar. Close the bleed screw, get out from under the car, check the fluid in the reservoir, and remove the broom so the pedal comes back up. Repeat this process until you have a nice clean stream of fluid going in the mayonnaise jar when you loosen your bleed screw. Then concentrate on finding your leak. This is a good "first job" in getting to know your Cobra.
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