How to easily bleed a hydraulic clutch after maintenance

So you have replaced the clutch in your car. And your struggling to get a good pedal with no real progress. You’re wondering what you have done wrong. It’s not as difficult as you think. Although you may need a brake bleeding tool. It can be done with out but gets very messy without.

So what’s the secret? How difficult is it to bleed a hydraulic clutch?

Well the truth is, there is no secret! Oh and it’s really easy. Here’s the simple guide.

1. Always ensure the master cylinder is full of brake fluid. Be aware from personal experience sometimes you think the brake resovior is full but in fact it isn’t.  I have discovered these generally have two or more chambers. This resulted in the brake fluid not flowing through affecting the inability to bleed the clutch and or brakes. Sometimes it’s difficult to see the fluid, a good tip is to use a inspection lamp held up to the resovior allows easier assessment of brake fluid level. 
2. Open the bleed valve at slave cylinder and attach bleed tool  now simply pump clutch pedal about a dozen times. Then lock off clutch bleed valve.  That should be it if you have a good pedal. If not read on.
3. So you don’t have a pedal?  Pump it a few times, you should have at least a small amount of pedal.if not repeat no two. Now you need to repeatedly pump pedal about 10 times the hold it down 30 seconds, keep repeating, have a rest between and leave and come back and try again. You should find it gets slightly better every time.
4. Now you have some pedal repeatedly pump pedal and hold down pedal with a pedal holding tool for a few hours. You should find when you return the pedal is good as new.
5. This smashes all the air bubbles into micro bubbles, then these over time find there way out of the hydraulic system.

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