7 hours to bleed cerbera clutch ... aarrghhhh!!!!!

[joospeed]

Still at work at 3-00AM and still got the gearbox to go back in .. might as well not go home now. Bloody main dealers!! .. doing a service on a cerbie and come to bleed the clutch .. it's full of black bits so decide to flush right through with fresh stuff, master cyl goes empty so top up and expect to bleed through as normal, but no! .. can't get a bloody pedal at all. hmmmph! Seems the dealer that fitted the engine conveniently put the slave cylinder in rotated 90 degrees so the bleed hole is horizontal allowing air to be trapped in the top half of the annular ring with no way of getting out. Bugger. Have had to remove gearbox and make a puller to hold the slave cylinder fully in to displace the air and finally get the thing bled properly. I was only and hour off a full clutch change. Anyway I've left a suitable note for the dealer to see next time they're in there ... bast*rds.

[markoso]

Nice to know someone's doing an even crapper job than mine at this time of the morning.

[olly]

J3sus Joolz ! I hope you've got a good supply of coffee in your workshop ! And I hope owner of said car is suitably grateful for you staing up all night to get their car sorted !

[mlumb]

cue roy castle singing.........

Dedication,dedication...thats what you need........

[williamball]

Seems the dealer that fitted the engine conveniently put the slave cylinder in rotated 90 degrees so the bleed hole is horizontal allowing air to be trapped in the top half of the annular ring with no way of getting out.

Couldn't you just turn the car through 90 degrees?

Or drive very very fast round a roundabout to cause the centrifugal force [OK, I know it's actually centrepetal force] to force the fluid 90 degrees from the bleed? Might need an assistant to sit in the bonnet for that one, and to give you driving directions when the bonnet's up so I guess this option is a 2-man job.


WB

[gazzab]

and there was I believing that Joolz was a top mechanic.

[vroom]

Or drive very very fast round a roundabout to cause the centrifugal force [OK, I know it's actually centrepetal force] to force the fluid 90 degrees from the bleed? Might need an assistant to sit in the bonnet for that one, and to give you driving directions when the bonnet's up so I guess this option is a 2-man job.

wouldn't you need the clutch to work in the first place though???

[williamball]

Nah - push start it in 2nd.

OK that makes this method a 4 man job now though. 2 to push with the car in gear, 1 to drive and press the clutch pedal, and 1 to sit in the bonnet to give driving directions and operate the bleed valve.


WB

WB

[vroom]

So assume 2 hours to bleed (takes longers as you are feeling dizzy) + four people.

That's 8 man hours...

[B19TOY]

olly said: And I hope owner of said car is suitably grateful for you staying up all night to get their car sorted !

I feel sure he is. Joolz is a top bloke.

>> Edited by B19TOY on Thursday 20th March 22:32