Anyone successfully bleed the clutch by themselves?

[Metacom]

My master clutch cylinder, at least that's all I hope it is decided to crap out on me right after I dropped in my Koyo rad. Car runs fine in neutral but with clutch pedal down its hard to get into gear and when it is, the car stalls as if the clutch is slowly being released without any throttle and the pedal is slow/almost stuck at the floor on return.

I don't have anyone to help me bleed the clutch, and she cant be driven, obviously. I was thinking about using a 2x4 or something jammed between the clutch pedal and seat to keep the pedal down while I open the nipples to bleed, then pump pedal again, repeat. It would take forever, but I havent heard any success stories using only vacuum bleeders.

Kinda sounds like a redneck way to do it, but hell...any other options???

[RED_DET]

Have your neighbor come over and help...

[Metacom]

Dont know'em...and I doubt their fat little legs could hold the clutch all the way down

[itsa300zx]

I've had great success with the hand held vac pumps and with those simple one man bleeder kits. Maybe try those speed bleeders too.

[Metacom]

Just read about speed bleeders, that's just what I was looking for. Thanks.

[Phan]

I've had great success with the hand held vac pumps and with those simple one man bleeder kits. Maybe try those speed bleeders too.

Go to your local auto store get yourself a OEM One Man Bleeder Kit. Extremely easy to do and requires only one person.

I've just change out my 350z slave cylinder that had a stuck clutch using this technique. Fast, cheap, easy.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkd7iq-dIQ0

[Metacom]

Got it all done using speed bleeders.

I dunno why but the fluid at first wasn't able to get past the eye bolt in the slave cylinder (new OEM,) originally the eye bolt hole and clutch line were not lined up on the old unit. Trying to get them closer together seemed to fix the problem.


Clutch feels good (better) now and no stalling in gear with clutch down.

[spike240]

Just fyi I used to bleed them myself. I used an extending hood prop that i would wedge between the seat and the pedal. It works when you just need to get stuff done