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Old 06-15-2009, 03:32 AM   #8 (permalink)
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Your experience with the titanic effort of bleeding the master and slave cylinders is par for the course.

This is a very, very, very trying experience. My guess is you still have a bubble in the hydraulics. Is the clutch the slightest bit spongy? It should be firm, and movement should be consistent, smooth, gradually increasing in resistance.

I've had the best luck with using a pedal pumper assistant. And then opening and closing the valve with each pedal cycle. And its still the Mother of all Bleeding jobs!

If your pedal is good and firm, you probably have some clutch/throw out bearing issue going on and will have to Drop Tranny. I've had what 328FTW described happen to me a few times. The fork that pushes against the throw out bearing gets slightly out of place, and the clutch doesn't work worth a damn. I've shimmed up the bolt that acts as a pivot point for the fork . . . in order to fix it.
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