Damas y Caballeros: I had the pleasure yesterday of bleeding the T56 clutch on my '00 Z28 for the first time after a motor swap. For various sundry reasons I was relegated to cracking and closing the slave cylinder bleeder while my son pumped the clutch and added hydraulic fluid as needed. Anyway, after doing this for a while there was no pressure build up in the clutch. I was anxious to see if my newly swapped motor would start and so gave up on the clutch bleed and let the new engine run for about 20 minutes. I then pressed the clutch pedal on a random impulse with no expectation of it working and lo and behold it pressured up and is working fine.
Question: Did the heat (expansion of air) generated to the fluid in the master cylinder and/or slave cylinder through the engine idling cause the system to pressure up? If so, then how come in all of the "how to's" I've read online this very important part of the clutch bleeding process was never mentioned?
After changing the clutch master cylinder in a SVT Ford Focus I once owned, I managed to pressure up the clutch hydraulics independent of operation of the motor.
Thanks,
Curious
Question: Did the heat (expansion of air) generated to the fluid in the master cylinder and/or slave cylinder through the engine idling cause the system to pressure up? If so, then how come in all of the "how to's" I've read online this very important part of the clutch bleeding process was never mentioned?
After changing the clutch master cylinder in a SVT Ford Focus I once owned, I managed to pressure up the clutch hydraulics independent of operation of the motor.
Thanks,
Curious