Tango91
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Yo,
I managed to sort the clutch on my D2 after problems following slave cylinder replacement and thought I’d share.
I’d been having problems bleeding the clutch, if you left it overnight with the pedal wedged down it would be ok for a while but you’d slowly lose the ability to change gears. Bleeding it out normally didn’t make a permanent difference, I guess there’s too many twists and turns in the clutch line that act as bubble traps, and you’d need a friend to top the reservoir up and/or a vacuum bleeder to pull all the air through fast enough.
My solution was to get a length of clear silicone tubing, and run it from the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder, up across the top of the windscreen wipers so I could see it from inside, and into the brake fluid reservoir that the clutch master feeds from.
i opened the bleeder screw enough to let the fluid move freely, and got in the car to smoothly pump the clutch, giving it a second inbetween to fill up again.
The amount of bubbles that came up that tube was mad, and it took more than 30 cycles of the pedal to come good, and just pump fluid around and back into the reservoir.
Once done, I wedged the pedal down and closed the bleeder, and bingo, perfect clutch. It’s been a few days and it seems to be staying good.
Pinch the tube closed at the bottom, pull it off the nipple and lift it up to let it drain back into the reservoir, make sure to get some on your paintwork for good measure.
Hope this helps someone else struggling to bleed the clutch
I managed to sort the clutch on my D2 after problems following slave cylinder replacement and thought I’d share.
I’d been having problems bleeding the clutch, if you left it overnight with the pedal wedged down it would be ok for a while but you’d slowly lose the ability to change gears. Bleeding it out normally didn’t make a permanent difference, I guess there’s too many twists and turns in the clutch line that act as bubble traps, and you’d need a friend to top the reservoir up and/or a vacuum bleeder to pull all the air through fast enough.
My solution was to get a length of clear silicone tubing, and run it from the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder, up across the top of the windscreen wipers so I could see it from inside, and into the brake fluid reservoir that the clutch master feeds from.
i opened the bleeder screw enough to let the fluid move freely, and got in the car to smoothly pump the clutch, giving it a second inbetween to fill up again.
The amount of bubbles that came up that tube was mad, and it took more than 30 cycles of the pedal to come good, and just pump fluid around and back into the reservoir.
Once done, I wedged the pedal down and closed the bleeder, and bingo, perfect clutch. It’s been a few days and it seems to be staying good.
Pinch the tube closed at the bottom, pull it off the nipple and lift it up to let it drain back into the reservoir, make sure to get some on your paintwork for good measure.
Hope this helps someone else struggling to bleed the clutch
