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Thanks for the insightful replies! Petek, after rereading my post, I realized I worded that part funny. I didn't mean to ask if it's necessary to remove all the air from the lines, but rather if you must bench bleed the master cylinder in order to be able to remove all the air from the lines. When I bled my clutch master and slave last night, I ran a line from the master cylinder to it's reservoir, filled the reservoir, pumped the pedal about 2 dozen times until I could no longer see air bubbles moving around and then hooked up my slave cylinder in place of this temporary bleed line. Next, I pumped the clutch pedal slowly about 1" stroked until I got a firm pedal and then bled the air out of the slave using the traditional 2 man method. I did this about 10 times and didn't see any more bubbles. The slave cylinder is moving about 3/4", and the pedal effort is surprisingly light. I won't know if I have enough stroke until I fire the engine this week and see if I can disengage the clutch. Thanks again for all the replys. I wasn't sure if I needed to bench bleed it, so when I do my brakes in a few weeks, I'll make it a point to bench bleed those masters as well...
Mike
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