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How to Bleed Your Clutch

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Locate your slave cylinder; you don't necessarily need to, but it might help to jack the car up, especially if you've lowered the vehicle at all. Looking under the front bumper, the slave cylinder is bolted to your bellhousing with two 12mm bolts between the transmission and the engine block. It will look something like this:
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There should be a little rubber nipple covering a fitting with a 10mm adjustment on it. Remove the nipple, and attach a piece of vacuum tubing to it; you'll want about a foot of tubing.

Get a bottle of your favorite soda. Drink it. Clean the bottle thoroughly. Allow to dry. Ahhh, refreshing, isn't it?

Cut a hole in the bottle cap large enough to accomodate the vacuum tubing. Fill up the bottom half of the bottle with CLEAN, PREVIOUSLY-UNOPENED brake fluid (DOT-3/DOT-4), and insert the tubing through the cap (screwed onto the bottle) all the way to the bottom of the fluid.

Go to the bar. Make a new friend (preferably a cute one). Bring them home with you to help you "bleed" your "clutch".

Have your friend press the clutch pedal to the floor. When they do, loosen the 10mm fitting on the slave cylinder. What you will see is some incredibly disgusting stuff flush out of the vacuum tubing, and possibly some air bubbles. Have the friend lift the pedal (it will stay on the floor; they'll likely have to pull it up by hand), and re-tighten the slave cylinder fitting.

Repeat that step a few times, until you no longer see air bubbles escaping the clutch line. You might also want to check your clutch fluid levels while doing this; if you flush enough air out, you'll see your fluid level drop quite a bit. The reservoir is located in the engine bay on the driver's side; look for a small (1.5" diameter, about 2" tall) reservoir.

An alternative suggestion to having a friend do this was made by Defiant: you could simply press the slave cylinder rod, simulating the effect of pressing the clutch in; to do it, unbolt the slave cylinder, being careful to keep pressure on the cylinder rod the entire time. press the rod in, loosen the fitting, then pull the rod part-way out. Tighten the fitting, and repeat, as above. Don't let the rod pop out, or you'll find yourself needing to start the process over again (as you'll allow air into the system).

That's it. There's another very good writeup here which differs slightly, and has pretty pictures (and is probably more correct).

Enjoy. :thumb:
 
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