05-10-2006, 07:51 AM
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Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Ellison Bay,
WI
Cobra Make, Engine: SPF #967
Posts: 90
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Bleeding
Mike,
Do I need to put the cap back on the master when we're bleeding the line?
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Originally Posted by Mike Simard
Even though the car has 3500 miles I would flush the fluid. Brake fluid collects water over time by just being there. As water increases the fluid boils easier which makes it spongy. The heat from the headers is close enough to the clutch line to cause boiling. Once the fluid boils it looses some of its future properties and will be more suseptible to heat. Since you need to bleed your clutch anyway you might as well bleed the heck out of it which will flush the lines. All you need to do is open the bleeder at the slave cylinder and replenish fluid at the resevoir, you don't need to deal with the master.If you don't have a helper, try a speed bleeder which is a check valve that goes on the slave bleeder, then you can just pump the clutch pedal many times occasionally getting out to replenish fluid. That should make a difference.
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