I think I've just caused my situation to go from bad to much worse. This is in reference to my post from a few days ago re: my manual transmission which was very hard to shift.

I decided that the clutch was probably not disengaging fully, so I figured that bleeding the system wouldn't hurt anything. Wrong. The method that I used was to attach my hand pump to the bleed nipple on the slave cylinder and use a light vacuum to draw fluid down from the reservoir. (I basically followed the instructions for brake bleeding that came with the pump.) Almost immediately I got endless air flowing out of the line and barely any fluid. I kept an eye on the reservior to make sure that there was enough fluid in it so I have no idea where the air is coming from. Could be that the hose wasn't tight enough around the bleed nipple, but I doubt it. It barely fit on in the first place. Nothing I do builds pressure in the system.

Any ideas? I feel like I'm completely screwed now.

Tim
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Tim Smith 98 S70, 74k mi.