RE: Alfetta clutch slave bleeding

["Brian Shorey" <bshorey@domain.elided>]

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> for certain).  Anyway I'm wondering if this bleed screw pointing
> down (instead of up as normal) somehow draws air from around the
> screw and into the fluid in the bleed-tube, as the fluid passes
> out of the cylinder and along the tube?  (Meaning that the
> bubbles seen in the tube did not come from air within the
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the only problem with having the bleed screw on the bottom is that there may
be an air pocket trapped in the top part of the slave cylinder, and you
won't push it out when bleeding if the bleeder is below it.

as for the air bubbles, i don't believe that they would come from around the
bleeder, as there is certainly no suction while you are pressing down on the
pedal.  if you are using a mityvac, or some such suction device to bleed
from the slave, then maybe, but not if you're pushing fluid through with the
pedal.

for proper bleeding, keep the bleeder at the top.

bs

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