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Re: clutch question

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Subject: Re: clutch question
From: Max Heim <mvheim@studiolimage.com>
Date: Tue, 31 Jul 2001 11:52:35 -0700
1. loose connection somewhere letting in air (recheck & tighten fittings)
2. it's the MC

"When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however
improbable, must be the truth"


on 7/31/01 10:43 AM, James Nazarian Jr at jamesnazarian@netzero.net wrote:

> List,
> 
> I am having a clutch problem that I am looking for input on.
> The M/C is about 5years old, the slave about 2weeks, and the
> flex hose is a few days old.
> 
> I just replaced the clutch recently and have been having this
> problem ever since.  When I bleed the clutch I get good pedal
> feel and good travel at the yoke, but within seconds after
> I have no pedal at all.  I am sure I am getting the air out.
> After loosing the pedal it can be pumped back up, implying that
> there is air in the system, but I can't find any.  This problem
> is what led to the changing of the slave and of the hose, but
> to no avail.  What else could be a problem that could be causing
> the system to act as if there is air in it.  I have gone so far
> as to bleed half a bottle of fluid through the system, so I am
> sure I am getting any air that could be in.  I have bled by
> mity-vac and with the pedal.
> 
> HELP!  
> 
> Thanks 

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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the red one with the silver bootlid.

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