‘94 Defender NAS 90 with R380. I don’t know when it was last done and the fluid was pretty nasty so I attempted to bleed the clutch hydraulics. I hooked up my motive powerbleed, pumped it up, and hopped under the car. First thing I noticed is that the slave cylinder seems to be in upside down as the bleed screw is below the hardline connection. Clutch was working fine so I figured that would only be an issue if air was introduced so I went ahead and opened the bleed screw on the slave.
Everything seemed to go normally. Disconnected everything and tested the pedal and it went straight to the floor and didn’t come back up. Bad.
I tried the trick of holding my hand over the master while my daughter pumped the pedal and I redid the bleed with the motive but no significant change after either. Maybe a little more pressure but still not functional.
Last, and this is where it goes extra bad, I noticed after the second attempt with the motive that there was fluid dripping down the clutch pedal. I think that means I might have blown a seal on the MC but I can’t see where it’s leaking from so I am seriously hoping I just spilled some fluid when I hooked up the motive the second time.
I will try the reverse bleed with the syringe (third time’s a charm) but if that doesn’t work am I looking at replacing master (and slave and lines because why not)? Anyone seen this before with a power bleed?
Everything seemed to go normally. Disconnected everything and tested the pedal and it went straight to the floor and didn’t come back up. Bad.
I tried the trick of holding my hand over the master while my daughter pumped the pedal and I redid the bleed with the motive but no significant change after either. Maybe a little more pressure but still not functional.
Last, and this is where it goes extra bad, I noticed after the second attempt with the motive that there was fluid dripping down the clutch pedal. I think that means I might have blown a seal on the MC but I can’t see where it’s leaking from so I am seriously hoping I just spilled some fluid when I hooked up the motive the second time.
I will try the reverse bleed with the syringe (third time’s a charm) but if that doesn’t work am I looking at replacing master (and slave and lines because why not)? Anyone seen this before with a power bleed?