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Mail From: "Ryan Lee" <(email redacted)>

Good LateNight/EarlyMorning everyone!

We just took out the Clutch Master and Slave cylinders, cleaned them up, and
installed new seals and what not from Sunbeam Specialities kit in my Series
V. It was having a clutch problem where if you depressed the clutch pedal
and held it for more than a half second, when you took your foot off the
clutch it would remain in gear with the pedal pretty much on the floor. You
would kinda have to pump it a couple times before it would come out.

So, like I said, re took the two cylinders out and cleaned 'em up, then
stuck 'em back in tonight.

However. We were having a dog of a time bleeding the lines. Then, when we
kinda thought we might have it sorta working, we fired it up, but it
wouldn't go into gear at all.

What happend is when you depress the clutch petal, the action causes the
Slave cyl to depress, pushing the clutch in - but as soon as it recieves
full depression it starts coming back it - which kind of screws you up if
you're trying to actually -use- the clutch.

After much Hmming and Hawing, we think we might have the Clutch Slave upside
down.

So, our questions are thus:

1. Does it matter which way you mount the Slave cyl in the car?
2. Is there a definate "Input from Master" screw and a "Bleed" screw?
3. Could the fact that we had these reversed be screwing us up?
4. If there is a difference, how can you tell?


Thank you all. The list is always such a wonderful help.


Ryan Lee
SV B395000793 LRX

p.s. I suppose it might help if I had a workshop book. Using my dad's for
his Tiger MkIA just doesn't quite work sometimes. :-)

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Mail From: (email redacted) (robert nanzig)

Hi Ryan, I took a look at my slave and the bleed screw is positioned
above the clutch master line. This makes sense in that you might never
get the last air bubbles out of the slave if the bleed screw is on the
bottom. air rises
I've heard of people having a devil of a time when they install
calipers on the wrong sides of the car and can't get them bled because
the bleed screws are pointing down, not up.

Rob Nanzig
67SV