F.A.O Monkfish1 (remote clutch bleed kit)
F.A.O Monkfish1 (remote clutch bleed kit)
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L2VXR

Original Poster:

1,005 posts

236 months

Tuesday 24th June 2008
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With the regular threads that pop up about spongy peddle,dirty fluid,difficult gear change
what are your thoughts about these remote bleed pipes i've come across:

www.ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=708701

I havent any issues as yet but the dirty clutch fluid does bug me and would like an easy option to bleed it myself without crawling under the car.
Is it something you could develop as a Kit?
do you think you would need to remove the gearbox to install?

Paul.

stevieturbo

17,959 posts

270 months

Tuesday 24th June 2008
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The gearbox would need removed to install any remote bleeder to the internal slave.

Well..not totally true.


You could remove the engine lol

monkfish1

12,206 posts

247 months

Tuesday 24th June 2008
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From the info in the link, im not quite sure what they have done there!!!! In principle you could run the bleed back up to the engine bay. However, to replace the exsisting bleeder/bar i suspect (almost certain as i sit here on my sofa!) that the box would have to come out to install it, rather deafeating the object.

To be honest, there is lot of talk about the clutch fluid thing, but its not that hard to bleed, or at least not if its not been dismantled. Open valve, pump pedal while some one fills the resevoir, close valve. OK, its a 3 man job unless you have a pressure bleeder, but you get my point. It will be black again within the week whatever you do. So long as it works, why worry? Ive yet to find a car with clutch woes thats been fixed by bleeding the fluid.

monkfish1

12,206 posts

247 months

Tuesday 24th June 2008
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Oh, and those pics in the link are not from a monaro!

stevieturbo

17,959 posts

270 months

Tuesday 24th June 2008
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Or 1 man, let gravity draw the fluid through.

Or an Easibleed, to pump the fluid through.


PITA to get at the bleed nipple either way though. By all means if the box is out, fit one though. Otherwise...leave it alone.

I personally have never had any clutch fluid problems. It gets a little dirty...but so what ?

L2VXR

Original Poster:

1,005 posts

236 months

Wednesday 25th June 2008
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monkfish1 said:
From the info in the link, im not quite sure what they have done there!!!! In principle you could run the bleed back up to the engine bay. However, to replace the exsisting bleeder/bar i suspect (almost certain as i sit here on my sofa!) that the box would have to come out to install it, rather deafeating the object.

To be honest, there is lot of talk about the clutch fluid thing, but its not that hard to bleed, or at least not if its not been dismantled. Open valve, pump pedal while some one fills the resevoir, close valve. OK, its a 3 man job unless you have a pressure bleeder, but you get my point. It will be black again within the week whatever you do. So long as it works, why worry? Ive yet to find a car with clutch woes thats been fixed by bleeding the fluid.


Thanks for your thoughtsthumbup,If the box would need to come out I'll forget about it till/if the day arrives that the box is removed.
Think it would be a nice improvement though for easy maintanance for those without a ramp