The message to which you are about to reply is shown first. GO TO REPLY FORM



 VIEW    REPLY TO THIS MESSAGE    PRINT   SAVE 

Tried to bleed clutch...now pedal totally limp. S70 1998

posted by  tim smith on  Sun Aug 3 10:59 CST 2003
Author: [PROFILE] [EVERY POST] [THREADS] [BEST POSTS] RSS Feed     [IGNORE ALL POSTS] [RELATED]

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
--
Tim Smith 98 S70, 74k mi.






USERNAME
Use "claim to be" below if you don't want to log in.
PASSWORD
I don't have an account. Sign me up.
CLAIM TO BE
Use only if you don't want to login (post anonymously).
ENTER CAPTCHA CODE
This is required for posting anonymously.
OPTIONS notify by email
Available only to user accounts.
SUBJECT
MODEL/YEAR
MESSAGE

DICTIONARY
LABEL(S) +
IMAGE URL *
[IMAGE LIBRARY (UPLOAD/SELECT)]

* = Field is optional.

+ = Enter space delimited labels for this post. An example entry: 240 muffler


©Jarrod Stenberg 1997-2022. All material except where indicated.


All participants agree to these terms.

Brickboard.com is not affiliated with nor sponsored by AB Volvo, Volvo Car Corporation, Volvo Cars of North America, Inc. or Ford Motor Company. Brickboard.com is a Volvo owner/enthusiast site, similar to a club, and does not intend to pose as an official Volvo site. The official Volvo site can be found here.