On Wed, 28 Oct 1998 DAPrescott@AOL.COM wrote:

> Replacement is fairly straight forward, but the Bentley manual tells you to
> use a pressure bleeder.  I didn't.  I used the old partner method.  This was
> OK until about a month later, when my clutch began to fail.  I figured, OK,
> two cylinders, now the clutch.  I went to my VW mechanic, and he gave me a
> tongue lashing.  Seems the use of the pressure bleeder is necessary, else bad
> things happen in the nether parts of the system.  He pressure-bled the system,
> and the bad things went away.

Did he happen to mention WHY you must use a pressure bleeder?  I've bled
the system using the SO as the "pressure", and never had a bit of a
problem.  Off hand, the "must use a pressure bleeder" doesn't make sense
to me.

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Tom Young               young@sherlock.SIMS.Berkeley.EDU
Lafayette, CA  94549    '81 Vanagon
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