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Power bleeder works fine on the Master.  It's all the
same hyrdaulic system.  Power Bleeder works wonders
actually, I stronglly recomend one.

Damon

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&gt; Steve Houck (&#115;houck&#64;entyre<img src=/i/dc.gif border=0 width=35 height=15>) wrote:
> > Changed the clutch master cylinder this weekend, a few things to note.
[...]
> > Bleeding took forever because I bought a Craftsman hand vacuum pump, and
> > apparently I was using it wrong because I kept getting air for about 2
> > hours and a quart (big bottle) of brake fluid.  Had a helper pump the
> > clutch to bleed it after I gave up, and it was solid fluid. So unless
> > someone can give me tips on using the hand vacuum pump, I don't
> > recommend it. Didn't work.
[...]
>
>    I had tried using one of those (a plastic JC Penney one) a long time
>    ago to bleed the brakes on my bike and couldn't get it to work either.
[...]
>    I think what
>    people here use the most is the manual method, or a "pressure bleeder",
>    like the one available from parts4vws.com:
>
>    "Power Brake Bleeder"
>
>    http://www.parts4vws.com/catalog/product_detail.asp?PartNumber=T%2EBleeder
>
>    I don't think the "power bleeder" would work with the clutch master
>    cylinder though...
>
> > Steve Houck
> > 95 Jetta GLX -Sore hand edition

Steve, thanks for those writeups and I hope your clutch problems are
eliminated.  Some thoughts on your bleeding experiences:

When you use a suction bleeder you will never get perfectly clear fluid out
of the bleed screw.  This is because air gets sucked through the threads in
the loosened bleeder screw and enters your evacuation hose.  This air enters
after the fluid is extracted from the system so it doesn't mean the bleeder
isn't working correctly, it's just a characteristic of suction bleeders.
I've used suction bleeders systems on brake and clutch systems for over 30
years and they work as well as any pressure systems, you just have to
understand the part about the air getting sucked in through the bleeder
screw threads so you won't go nuts trying to get all the bubbles to go away.

Anyway good luck and thanks for the writeup.

Regards,

Chris Kramer