>Date:    Fri, 6 Jan 2006 15:49:13 -0500
>From:    Roger Sisler <rogersisler2000@YAHOO.COM>
>Subject: Re: New Transmission Time?
>
>
>Speaking of clutch bleeding, how is this done?  When I replaced  my
>components I could not get it blead proper. I pumped about 2000 times or
>more! Still no pressure to activate the clutch. Mostly air in the lines. I
>filled the resivour to the tipity top and resumed pumping. By luck it
>pumped up and the clutch worked.Good thing as I was about to quit. But this
>was luck. Had  to be. I hear of pressure bleeding for this system. Is this
>correct? What is needed and how is it done? Now that my clutch works, I
>need to bleed the system again just for maintinance(2 years).Can I just
>pump it like a brake system? Tanks
>
>

The same way as you bleed brakes, and "pumping" is *NOT* the way to do
it.  That will sometimes entrain so much air that you're worse off than
when you started.  To bleed the clutch (without a pressure/vacuum
bleeder) you need two people and:

1. Fill the fluid reservoir.
2. Open the bleeder on the slave cylinder.
3. Slowly depress the clutch pedal all the way to the floor, and HOLD it
there.
4. Close the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder.
5. Release the clutch pedal.
6. Repeat steps 1 through 5 until a steady stream of fluid is ejected
from the slave cylinder bleeder when the pedal is depressed.  Top off
the fluid, and you're done.

You bleed the brakes the same way, starting at the wheel furthest from
the proportioning valve(s) and working your way to the closest wheel.

Keith Hughes