Sounds like you have air in your slave or MC. First bleed the slave by closing
the bleeder screw and pushing the slave rod back and forth (hmmmmm....) then
bleed the MC by the bleeder screw. (hmmmmm....I hope there are no children on
this list.) If this works you owe me a beer!
Tom
On 11/12/01, Ed Esslinger <edstiger@snowhill.com> wrote:
On the clutch that takes too much travel, is your bleeder valve on the top
> of the slave cylinder, with the inlet pipe on the bottom?
Yes it is installed correctly. What I don't understand is why moving the
slave back made no difference. Ed
----- Original Message -----
From: <Jay_Laifman@countrywide.com>
To: <Alpines@autox.team.net>
Cc: "Ed Esslinger" <edstiger@snowhill.com>
Sent: Monday, November 12, 2001 11:42 PM
Subject: Clutches and brakes
> On the clutch that takes too much travel, is your bleeder valve on the top
> of the slave cylinder, with the inlet pipe on the bottom? If not, it is
> backwards, and you probably have not gotten a good enough bleed. Did you
> change anything else? You said you used spacers to push the MC backwards.
> So it sounds like you have the MC on the back side of the bellhousing -
> which would be correct.
>
> On the brakes, I installed a .70 MC without servo. I got it from Pegasus
> off the shelf. Works great.
>
> Jay
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