hydraulic clutch bleeding?

[pat nuben]

hey i am just about done with my h22 swap, but my clutch just goes right to the floor with no resistence whatsoever, me and my friend tried bleeding it like brakes for about half hour of pumping and releasing pressure and it gave me no resistence in my clutch pedal at all? any info on whats going wrong or why i have no pressure or how to properly bleed it? all that was coming out was air, and some fluid at times

[NoSloCB7]

Just have to keep pumping and bleeding....its a pain

[AccordWithNos]

hey i am just about done with my h22 swap, but my clutch just goes right to the floor with no resistence whatsoever, me and my friend tried bleeding it like brakes for about half hour of pumping and releasing pressure and it gave me no resistence in my clutch pedal at all? any info on whats going wrong or why i have no pressure or how to properly bleed it? all that was coming out was air, and some fluid at times

i had the same prob with my car took it to a shop and turns out my slave or primary (whatever u call it) clutch cylinder blew up.

u may want to check that out if u cant get it working.

[lowfrostcb7]

Mine was a pain in the ass too, took me and my stepdad forever to get it bled
Make sure your return spring on your clutch pedal dindt come out, alot of the resistance is from that, or so it seemed in my car.

[h22sparkle]

Heres what you do its easy. Get a small cup then pour some brake fluid in there then from there take some clear tubing preferably like the one from a fishtank just small enough to fit onto the nipple bleeder valve on the slave nipple on the tranny itself. Then start pumping that pedal atleast 40 times then open the valve then close the valve.

Then repeat the process again to get all the air bubbles out of the line look at the tubing on the nipple part of the slave cylinder on the tranny you should be able to see through it, so you can see if theres any air bubbles in the line when its a straight solid liquid from with no bubbles thats when you can stop the process of bleeding it.

Youll feel pressure come back once all or most of the air is bled out of the system it will take awhile and yes it can become tedious at times. Just make sure you monitor the resevuoir where you have to keep refilling it or youll have put more air into the system and it will be a real pain in the ass to bleed the system. btw the nipple valve can be opened and closed with a 8mm baby sized wrench just make sure you turn it easy and dont strip the bleeder. And also make sure the tubing is submerged in the brake fluid atleast the size of half yoru pinky so that the air doesnt go back inside.

[TheTempest]

exactly what sparkle said...my two cents are watch that resivoir like a MOFO...I did'nt and a few times i let air in...and OMG it was a PITA!

Good luck