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Old 10-31-2017, 06:47 AM   #3
BossHogg69
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Re: Help bleeding clutch on 87 halfton

I just went through this last weekend with a RAM hyd throwout bearing and wilwood 3/4 clutch master, it's a little different than a slave cylinder, but the same principles apply. I tried pumping/bleeding, the MityVac (which works awesome on brakes!) and gravity bleeding - nothing working. I could get some air bubbles out with the MityVac, but couldn't get the pedal quite right. I ended up having to pull the transmission out, and manually pumping the throwout bearing a bunch of times with the m/c cap off and finally got the pedal right. At least yours has a clutch rod/slave cylinder that you can access without pulling the trans. I ran a McLeod hyd t.o. bearing before this RAM and it would bleed just fine using the bleeder screw. In defense of the RAM unit, I'm also using a RAM hydraulic pedal adjuster inline before the t.o. bearing, and it may have been where the air was trapped. You might try unbolting the slave cylinder and working it while tilting the fluid inlet end up toward while working it back & forth to allow any trapped air to exit the system. Sometimes the air bubbles get trapped horizontally in the slave cylinder and are stubborn to get out.
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