Clutch Master Cylinder Replacement?

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Flagshiplandy

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Hi all!

So I believe it is time to change my clutch master and slave cylinder as my pedal has gone soft and presses to the floor. All of the clutch fluid has gone but there doesn't seem to be a leak anywhere so I presume it's leaked into the bell housing?

Anyway my question is about bleeding it. I should be fine with the replacement but I am not confident with the bleeding process. Is it worth buying an eezibleed like this: Amazon product ?

The Haynes manual recommends to however I have heard that they are not always the best.

Many thanks :)
 
I like them and use it quite a lot just recently, very handy for changing the fluid as well of course.
Just make sure you drop the feed (air) pressure down to 20psi or just below, and I always cover all the bottle/reservoir in old rags. If they do let go in use it's quite possible to spray 1/2 ltr just about everywhere you can think of, deffo not what you want to be doing.
 
I bled mine on my own and it was so easy, I placed a plastic container with a small opening high up in engine bay on inner wing (I used an empty 2.5ltr windscreen wash solution bottle, the small opening stops the pipe slipping out) I fitted a plastic tube on the slave cylinder bleed nipple and up into the container then cracked open the bleed nipple, I then just pumped the pedal and kept topping up the fluid as required until no more bubbles came through the tube then nipped up the bleed nipple, job done. There is no need to keep the end of the tube in fluid in the container as the tube running up to the container always remains full.
It is so easy this way and can be done by yourself.
 
I always keep the end of the tube submerged and jam the pedal down to close the nipple and top up the fluid, I do my brakes like this too, if I have a helper I will use them though as it makes life easier. Those easy bleed things are useless, as are the vacuum bleeding systems, the vacuum will pull air through the bleed nipple threads giving the illusion of air in the fluid.
 
I did not need to jam the pedal or keep the pipe submurged in fluid as the pipe always remained full of brake fluid and did not draw air back as pedal raised. It just dragged a bit of clean fluid back each time and any air rose up the pipe towards the container. It was so easy. All you have to remember is the pipe remains full when you are finished so you need to catch it, I just put my thumb over the end of the pipe as I pulled it off the bleed nipple and drained it into the container I used.
 
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