Neat trick.

  Power bleeding with a Motive Power bleeder is the better way than a Vacuum
Bleeder...
  When you are alone, the pressure-style bleeding systems are pretty
fool-proof.  I used to sometimes bleed brakes a couple of times per day in
my racecar..So I do have some experience with that stuff.
  Don Hanson

On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Scott Daniel - Turbovans <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> Changing a transmission in an 85 Adventurewagon Vanagon ( FS , btw ) ......
> got the new trans in, notice the clutch slave cylinder rubber boot looks
> like it might be full of fluid .............I squease it.......sure enough,
> full of 'black water' ......
> old brake fluid that has turned to water almost, and very thin ......so
> obviously slave is shot.
>
> I put on a good one ......but it doesn't want to bleed.  No matter what I
> do
> .........won't bleed .........air keeps getting pumped in by the clutch
> master cylinder ..........( .which should be replaced to obviously )
> .....but I need to just get this van moving and parked outside .....to get
> another job in and started.
> so ............I don't think I've gotten to use this trick in about a dozen
> years.
>
> I connect a small hose from the left rear brake bleed valve, then to the
> clutch slave bleed valve, and open both valves, so they are joined by a
> small hose.
> Then, pushing on the brake pedal, I pump brake fluid backwards and up
> through the clutch hydraulic system .
> Man.........that works like a champ !    About 15 strokes on the brake
> pedal..........
> I close both valves........nice solid feeling clutch pedal ........hot dog,
> she's fixed and working in that department for now !
>
> so if ever.........you can't get a clutch hydrucalic system to bleed, using
> any push-on-the-pedal method ( and they are hard to get started with a new
> clutch master cylinder if you are using a push-the-pedal method )
> ..........remember this trick, cause it really works.
>
> pressure bleeder would transcend all this ..........and I do have one, I
> just like the feeling at the pedal when it's working right ....
> You can get an idea of how good any master cylinder, clutch or brake, is,
> by
> how it feels during bleeding with any push-down-the-pedal method.
> Vacuum bleeding............seems there'd be risk of sucking in air to me,
> so
> I never use that method.  But try this trick sometime when you need to.
> scott
> www.turbovans.com
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