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Subject:Re: How do explain this?
From:Jim Arnott
Date:Sat, 30 Apr 2011 15:50:30 -0700

On Apr 30, 2011, at 10:11 AM, neil n wrote:

> Though slow, the brake system will "gravity bleed". I assume the
> clutch line would do the same.

I doubt it. The clutch line goes down and up and down and up and down.
The high points are at the master cylinder and just before the slave.
The air that gathers at the rise before it goes to the slave will just
sit there. There's not enough fluid movement to encourage it to the
master.

Jim