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clutch bleeding S70 1998

posted by  740madness on  Thu Jan 20 17:04 CST 2011
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Picked up car from repair shop had clutch kit installed and slave.

Really soft. I assume they did not bleed correctly. I believe the brake and clutch share the share reservoir. I have the newer clutch/slave set up for 98.

Spoke to mechanic I am taking it back tomorrow. Any peculiarities with bleeding the s70?. I know my jeep was a pain to get all the air out. He said he is using a power bleeder.

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clutch bleeding S70 1998

posted by  packard8 on  Fri Jan 21 16:31 CST 2011
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I had this issue with a SAAB 9000 and last summer with my Mercedes. After using the power bleeder I still had no pedal, so (per the SAAB manual) I slowly pushed down the clutch pedal until some resistance was felt, then slowly let it back up. Repeated doing this for about three minutes and then the pedal was normmal.








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clutch bleeding S70 1998

posted by  jadnhm on  Fri Jan 21 06:54 CST 2011
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I bled the clutch slave on my sister's 1998 S70 once. It wasn't hard and I had no problems whatsoever doing it the old fashioned find-a-friend-to-pump-the-pedal method.

I have never owned or used a power bleeder, and though I expect it should work fine, I can't say first hand whether it works better or worse than the pump-the-pedal method does.
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