After hours of mucking about trying to bleed the clutch, I've found by far the best and easiest way to do it. Once I'd got the stuff fitted to the car, it took five minutes to bleed it completely. Anyone want to know how?

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A bit of tubing with a non return valve in?

A bit of tubing with a non return valve in?

Nope. That just makes it worse.

Get someone else to do it?? :rofl:

Give me a call? :D

Ok. Step 1, get one of those Easibleed things from Halfords. The ones you connect to your brake reservoir and use the pressure from a tyre to pressurise it.

 

Next, remove the clutch reservoir cover and dismantle it. You will need to remove the plastic insert and the rubber seal.

 

Drill a hole through the cover and attached the Easibleed connection to this. Reattach the rubber seal and put the cover back on the reservoir. Finally tie down the cover with cable ties.

 

When you pressurise the system, the cap will rise slightly as there's no way you can tie the cable ties tight enough to stop this. However, unlike the caps that come with the Easibleed, the existing clutch reservoir cap has a seal that runs all the way down the side. So you can hold the pressure.

 

Now follow the normal Easibleed instructions and open the bleed points underneath and under the bonnet one after the other. Do it a few times to be sure. You can get a litre of fluid through in about five mins.

 

Much easier than the hours spent doing it the manual way. I went from nothing in the system to a working clutch in less than 10 minutes.

 

Afterwards, reassemble the clutch cap so the plastic insert covers the hole you made. I'm not sure how permanent this covering is so I may need to purchase a second hand cover. I'll let you know.

I used an esi bleed kit too, simply made a cap, a piece of fiberglass with a rubber washer, and clamped it down with 2 g-clamps. There was a seal. Unfortunately the easybleed kit wasn't good enough to bleed it properly, while no bubbles came out i knew there was still a little air in there as the biting point would move.

Have you driven it much since?

My clutch would slip once the car was hot due to the expanding air. Hopefully yours is ok, otherwise prepare to spend ages bleeding the good old way. :)

Have you driven it much since?

I've done 75 miles in it today and it's been perfect. Very solid and very firm.

Give me a call? :D

And that's a very good point! Thanks for the phone time mate!

And that's a very good point! Thanks for the phone time mate!

 

 

No problem at all m8 - any time :)