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MG MGB Technical - Clutch Problems?

I just recently replaced my clutch slave cylinder and bled it out with a bleeder tube and all that jazz. I've never had a problem before now. It just seems that I'm not getting all the throw into the fork that I had before. I was able to take it out for a ride last night but it felt harder to shift. Rebled again and no differance. Opened new cylinder to look for defects, couldn't find anything wrong. Rebled a third time and it's still shifting funny and the pedal still feels weak. What's the deal?
victor gardino

Bleeding MG clutches can be a royal pain. There seems to be a spot which collects a hard-to-move air bubble. I've had some luck with the bleed it on a hill (or lift one end high). There should be an extensive thread (or many) in the archives about this.
Tom

Victor - Crawl under the car and push the clutch activation rod (and thus the piston) all the way back into the cylinder, then rebleed the clutch in the normal fashion. You may have to do this a couple of times, but it will get all the air out of the clutch hydraulics.
Good luck - Dave
David DuBois

You are looking for 1/2" to 5/8" of travel of the slave piston. I filled my empty system using a gunsons EeziBleed on very low pressure connected to the slave bleed nipple and got full travel with no bleeding required.
Paul Hunt

This thread was discussed on 08/09/2003

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