100k miles and 17 years old, definitely time for a brake fluid change. Did all the brakes no problem, but the clutch slave bleeder, no fluid would come out. Or - so little would come out, that I couldn't notice the difference between what little was left in my catch bottle.

 

Pumped the pedal about 20 times, and also tried using my gunson eezibleed at 23psi (after faffing with PTFE tape on the cap as it kept leaking everywhere!) - nothing

 

is there a trick I'm missing here? Would really like to get some fresh fluid through the clutch hydraulic line

 

Thanks!

I seem to remember that I had to depress the clutch pedal slightly while having the eezibleed connected and releasing the bleed nipple but mine was a petrol with an external slave.

Yeah I did try depressing the pedal as well with the eezibleed attached but that didn't help either sadly. Thanks for your reply tho :-)

 

My googling has revealed that it might be the clutch bleed nipple needs to be several turns out in order for fluid to flow - I cracked it a quarter/half turn like you would with a brake caliper so that might be my problem. Will have a go at that tomorrow :-)

49 minutes ago, Nipedley said:

Yeah I did try depressing the pedal as well with the eezibleed attached but that didn't help either sadly. Thanks for your reply tho :-)

 

My googling has revealed that it might be the clutch bleed nipple needs to be several turns out in order for fluid to flow - I cracked it a quarter/half turn like you would with a brake caliper so that might be my problem. Will have a go at that tomorrow :-)

 

Wow, yes, you didn't undo it enough.