Clutch cylinder bleed

[wemooz]

I note that there are posts advising to jack up the rear of the car as high as possible and then bleeding the clutch hydraulic fluid, and then there are posts, including from ERA, that advise jacking up the front of the car. Since the bleed port on the slave cylinder is towards the front of the car, it seems to me to make sense to jack the front instead of the rear. Am I missing something here, or is it different for different makes of the cobra?

[347stroker]

Go to the Summit catalog or call them up and get a Phoenix Systems brake bleeder. It is a reverse bleeder. Pushes fluid from the bleed screw up the line and into the reservoir. One person no hassles. I bled my brakes in twenty minutes by myself. The basic one is about seventy dollars and worth every penny. Tom

[Tom Howland]

+1. Nothing better.

[jhv48]

Or, you can do it the scientific way, gravity bleed. I've used this method many times for bleeding the clutch slave cylinder, where the master is sitting higher than the slave. Don't use on your brakes. Remove top from fluid reservoir, crawl under car and open bleeder valve after placing a container under it to catch the old fluid. Fluid will slowly drain from reservoir to bleeder valve. Refill reservoir a couple of times (you do not want to let any air into the system from above) tighten bleeder valve and voila, old fluid is gone, no air in system, and you barely got dirty. Or you can do as suggested above.

And yes, it does work. Many of us do it this way.