Hey guys my 84 z has a T5 and the hydraulic setup. When i first bought the car it had no clutch at all so i bled the slave cylinder and i had my clutch back but that cylinder leaked. I bought a new slave cylinder and bled it and it worked fine but had a little bit of sponginess occasionally where it would grind reverse a little. Im gonna let it sit over night and rebleed the slave cylinder tommorow. Anyone experience this problem before?

 

More than likely you still have a little air in the system. Bleeding a hydraulic clutch is somewhat problematic. You are trying to force air down a pipe, when it's natural tendency is to go up the pipe. Why they did not make some mechanism for bleeding these that actually works is beyond me.

What I have done (with some success.....) is run a hose from the bleeder valve to the resevoir, crack the bleeder, and just pump the pedal A LOT. This will force the air thru the system, and cycle the fluid. (having a friend help with this to make sure things stay put makes life easier as well....)

 

The Phenix Injector can probably be adapted to reverse-bleed a hydro clutch. It's made for reverse-bleeding brakes but it's still a hydraulic system....the only problem will be finding a way to seal it to the slave cylinder's bleeder hole.


I would just bleed the **** out of it.