Bleeding a hydraulic clutch ?

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  1. mavmike72

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    Yep I had to wrap my cable too .
     
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    I have a 2002 Dodge Ram 2500 diesel p/u that will soon need a clutch & I`m going to upgrade it to a West Bend that will handle 600 ft lb of torque.To make this change you also have to change your entire hydraulic set up,slave cyl,m/c & so on.There is a good video on one of the Dodge sites that shows you how to bleed the system.Basically the guy takes the whole set up off & hangs it on a rack,m/c up top,fills the m/c up & lets it drain down to the slave cyl.Then he keeps pushing the slave cyl piston until he gets all the air out,which ends up at the m/c.Then he bleeds the m/c pushing the piston until he gets all the air out of it.Then he installs it as a unit all put together,this guy is a master tech w/ over 30 yrs of experience,he convinced me this is the way to go.
     
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    mavgrab302 MCCI Florida State Rep

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    I went to a hydraulic shop and got the -4AN hose barb fitting I needed to install my wilwood billet reservoir... This will cure the leak I had in my plastic reservoir... I will bleed the system again and see how it works...
     
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    Only thing is these cars don't have the room to work with that pickup did. Certainly would not work with my setup with the McCleod T/O bearing. And the Wilwood master has a bass-ackwards action, with the fluid being sucked in as you work the action. It will not flow into the master without working the pedal (rod)
     
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    I got the clutch working.. The cure for me was to move the clutch rod to the inner hole on the clutch fork, it gave it the travel I needed and the rod is lined up with the slave much better too... Now on to the other problems with this wilwood master, The plastic parts on it are junk and wont seal well... They don't leak bad but a leak is a leak, I looked on there web site and they have a 3/4 master that is free of the plastic The stroke is a little longer 1.4 vs 1.1 on the one I have now... I don't think it will make much of a difference though...
     
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    Ken, I have two 3/4 wilwood master cylinders I did not use. I went with a tilton because more bore sizes to choose from. PM me about buying one.
    1. Part # 260-6089
    2. Part # 260-1304
     
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