Looked at your pix. Seems to me you'd be running dirty fluid-or at least
air bubbles-back into your master cylinder. Did I misunderstand something
about your bleeding regimen?
Mal Fay ran a flexible hose from the bleeder orifice on the clutch slave up
to the firewall ending in a bleeder valve. This made the process a bit
easier but still requires 2 people. You can pressurize to master cylinder
with a piece of bicycle tire tube and a bike pump. I have been successful
just being patient, having the wife sit in the car and pumping the clutch
peddle, while I laid on my belly in the foot well with my bleeder wrench.
It helps tremendously to enlarge the access hole to a reasonable size and
replace the rubber stopper with a sheetmetal cover held on with self-tapping
screws. That and Velcro motor mounts are the two best mods I ever made to my
Midget.
JohnD
P.S. I will read NO responses to this last statement posted by Ron Soave or
Rick Fisk! ;-)
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Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 09:26:35 -0500
From William Thompson <willy1959 at gmail.com>
Subject: Re: sectrets for easy clutch bleeding?
http://thompsoncarpentry.com/personalgallery/album09
<http://thompsoncarpentry.com/personalgallery/album09>
I do this on the Miata on the brakes, and it works GREAT, havent tried it
on the clutch system yet, but I dont see why it wouldnt work
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