For what it's worth, that is the specified way to bleed the clutch
hydraulic circuit on my 1988 F-450, and a bleeder screw is not even
provided.
Definitely not intuitive if you've never encountered it before. And
it is dark out. And you are making a repair on the side of the road.
-vin
> From: "Roger Wilson" <Roger@rw-architect.com>
>> Are you saying to bleed the clutch by pumping it without opening the
>> bleed valve?
>
> That absolutely worked for me after I replaced the clutch slave
> cylinder on my Miata. The system had emtied itself out when the
> old clutch slave cylinder failed. I bolted in a new clutch slave
> cylinder, then filled the reservoir. I sat in the car jumping up
> and down on the clutch pedal for about ten minutes. Never did
> touch the bleed screw.
>
> I had another Miata guy tells me that this cannot happen and I must
> have a magic car. I don't think that's true. :-)
>
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