justinmorgan

Can someone give me some advise on bleeding my 2005 C6 clutch. Where is the bleeding screw? thanks

justin

Braciole

You dont need to bleed it use a turkey baster Hold on Ill get you a link
Mike

Braciole

http://www.rangeracceleration.com/Launch_Tips.html
this is all you need to know look everything over
Mike

ProgGod

If you do bleed it you should buy a remote clutch bleeder and install that . Makes it so you can bleed it right from the engine bay.

AintQik

The bleed screw is on the slave cyl and almost impossible to bleed while the car is together. The turkey baster method is to replace the fluid not necesarily bleed air out of the system. I don't know what you are trying to do but if you take it apart, install a $40 bleeder.

0C_Williams@RPM

...and we have them in stock for all years.

justinmorgan

Any physical pics BTW. thanks

justin

carlrx7

i can't believe the slave cylinder is soo hard to access on this car,, is it really that bad? what about from under the car? turkey baster wont get air outta the system...

-carl

ProgGod

Its impossible to get to. Its inside the torque tube

justinmorgan

Man that is annoying. So do these power bleeders work from the fill resevoir.

C6~Missle

You still need to access the slave cyl with a power bleeder..

NIGHTSTALKER

Very helpful...Thanks

torquetube

The bleed screw is accessible through a hole on top of the bell-housing. It is not impossible to get to, but it is difficult.

If you can manage to reach the bleeder, than you can also manage to install a remote bleeder, which is a much better use of your time. All subsequent clutch bleeds will be a snap.

This thread has more information on remote-bleeder installation with the driveline in place:

http://forums.corvetteforum.com/show...remote+bleeder

ProgGod

Everything is possible just a pain in the butt..

justinmorgan

Talk to torquetube about bleeding clutch. He will make everything better!

Buffy

There is another method for getting air out of the system, by vaccum bleeding. Basically you use the Motive cap or something similar, but instead of putting in fluid under pressure you pull a vaccum and (in theory, at least) the air bubbles come to the top.

This procedure is actually in the shop manual.

torquetube

Unfortunately, the usual reason for bleeding the clutch is not elimination of air bubbles, but removal of the foul, burned hydraulic fluid from the slave cylinder.

And most causes of air in the system involve a recent or upcoming trip to the clutch slave, anyway.

I'd suggest to anybody contemplating a clutch job to install a remote bleeder while he's at it. It makes subsequent bleeds (for any purpose) ten times easier.