The best way to bleed the clutch hydraulic system is.....PATIENCE AND A 4 FOOT CLEAR TUBE.
My adventure started when I found my clutch pedal on the floor after getting back from a long vacation. My CMC failed in my 91 accord wagon and leaked all the brake fluid to the carpet floor. After replacing the CMC and also the slave cylinder (replace together based on numerous post here of slave cylinder failure after CMC replacement only) my frustration and curiosity started when I failed to bleed the hydraulic system properly.
I started to research the proper way of bleeding the system. There's quite a few of them and even tried making my own power bleeder. This one's funny from youtube.... POWER BLEEDER USING A HOUSEHOLD VACUUM CLEANER. Guess what....did not work. What cause all of them to fail I think was not giving them enough time to work. Afte 3 days of failure and thinking I might have a bad CMC or slave from autozone (by the way, they are lifetime warranty for both parts), tried the last procedure that worked.
I got a 4 foot clear tube from the hardware and put it on the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder and put the other end to the brake reservoir on the CMC. Kept the bleeder screw open and pumped away. SUCCESS!!! Pressure was felt probably less than a minute of pumping and tighten the bleeder screw. I was so amaze how simple that was that I actually did it again and even allowed air in the system and bleeded it again. Test drove the car and pressure is good.
Key things to remember:
-Use teflon tape on bleeder screw and the hydraulic line screw on the slave and CMC.
-Make sure use a snug fit size clear tube hose for the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder.
-Put a small amount of grease around the bleeder screw to avoid air leaking back into the system while open. (Good advise for those who are paranoid about leaking air back in the system but I did not do this. Read it somewhere. Teflon tape probably worked to seal the system)
-Make sure to keep filling the reservoir with brake fluid that will fill the rest of the hose until you have a close fluid circuit. (Count pumps in the beginning to see when the fluid is close to empty to avoid air in the system)
This will probably work with other cars too.
Not an active member but with this experience and how frustrated I got made me post this. Hope it helps everyone out.
My adventure started when I found my clutch pedal on the floor after getting back from a long vacation. My CMC failed in my 91 accord wagon and leaked all the brake fluid to the carpet floor. After replacing the CMC and also the slave cylinder (replace together based on numerous post here of slave cylinder failure after CMC replacement only) my frustration and curiosity started when I failed to bleed the hydraulic system properly.
I started to research the proper way of bleeding the system. There's quite a few of them and even tried making my own power bleeder. This one's funny from youtube.... POWER BLEEDER USING A HOUSEHOLD VACUUM CLEANER. Guess what....did not work. What cause all of them to fail I think was not giving them enough time to work. Afte 3 days of failure and thinking I might have a bad CMC or slave from autozone (by the way, they are lifetime warranty for both parts), tried the last procedure that worked.
I got a 4 foot clear tube from the hardware and put it on the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder and put the other end to the brake reservoir on the CMC. Kept the bleeder screw open and pumped away. SUCCESS!!! Pressure was felt probably less than a minute of pumping and tighten the bleeder screw. I was so amaze how simple that was that I actually did it again and even allowed air in the system and bleeded it again. Test drove the car and pressure is good.
Key things to remember:
-Use teflon tape on bleeder screw and the hydraulic line screw on the slave and CMC.
-Make sure use a snug fit size clear tube hose for the bleeder screw on the slave cylinder.
-Put a small amount of grease around the bleeder screw to avoid air leaking back into the system while open. (Good advise for those who are paranoid about leaking air back in the system but I did not do this. Read it somewhere. Teflon tape probably worked to seal the system)
-Make sure to keep filling the reservoir with brake fluid that will fill the rest of the hose until you have a close fluid circuit. (Count pumps in the beginning to see when the fluid is close to empty to avoid air in the system)
This will probably work with other cars too.
Not an active member but with this experience and how frustrated I got made me post this. Hope it helps everyone out.
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