Clutch bleeding nightmare!!!

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May 15, 2022 | 12:12 PM

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BulletProof300

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RE clutch Bleeding Nightmare

Sorry you are having trouble bleeding your clutch. What you might be doing wrong is that you don't open the slave cylinder bleed screw open during the bleed. I know it sounds strange and it isn't anything like bleeding brakes. Crack it open initially and let the fluid fill it but then you close the bleed screw and leave it closed. Have the clutch master cylinder on the truck with the front of the truck tilted up like it's on ramps or jacks. Fill the clutch cylinder master cylinder, put the cap on. Go inside, grab the clutch pedal and push and pull it up and down up and down up and down.. You will slowly cause the air bubble to work their way up to the master cylinder reservoir . In about 20 or 30 pushes you will have a firm clutch pedal.

Don't feel bad about not being able to do this. They are a little strange to work on . Once I had to teach a Ford Technician how to do it.

You'll be up and running soon.. Good Luck.

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Originally Posted by I6roughneck

So today I got my new clutch and slave cylender in my 96 F-150 I-6 4x4. Got it all put together and went to bleed the clutch.... at first I had half pedal enough to start it but not put it in gear. Could not get full pedal no mater what I did. A guide book with the cluch said these trucks are bad about locking air in the cylenders so it said to remove the master from the firewall and hold the resevior end higher and that would get the air out. Did this and shortly thereafter it got worse, now I have nothing! I push the clutch and it sucks itself right down to the floor and you have to pull it back. I am out of brake fluid for the night so the resevior is full and the bleeder valve is cracked. What should I do? Plese give me some input so I can get this thing on the road!