Clutch bleeding

[petegardner_901]

Hi

This may be a silly one but on my Spitfire 1500 are the bleed nipple and feed pipe from master cylinder interchangeable on the slave cylinder?

I was going to bleed the clutch but the bleed nipple is above the feed pipe so tricky to get at.

If I undo both and swap them round the bleed nipple is much more accessible

[Pete Lewis]

no the bleed must be above the feed  air floats so the bleed must always be uppermost or you never expell any air trapped in the slave 

all the fittings are intercahangable and the same threads and fittings  but dont do it

a tip for aiding bleeding is to push the slave pushrod/piston into the body to reduce its volume   not that easy on a 4 cyl slave as its held within the clutch hsg bracket 

Pete

[DanMi]

If you want to make it easier in future get a piece of pipe made up that goes into the engine compartment and has a bleed nipple on the end then easily accessible. 

Like this  https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/275166645611?hash=item401135cd6b:g:FCMAAOSwQgViCUVu

[petegardner_901]

What a clever idea - I’d never have thought of that…👀 

I’ve now done the bleeding - on my back with a sawn down ring spanner to fit the bleed (ing) nipple…

all good but thanks to both for comments

cheers

pete

[rogerguzzi]

Hello Pete

                 What I did was buy a flexible pipe for the feed line and use the solid one for the bleed line and it is next to the master cylinder

Roger