Pulling my hair out Clutch wont Bleed!

[atarijake]

Just an fyi, I read about how to bleed slave cylinders before I tried doing mine. I read that it was just terrible to get bled correctly. So I borrowed a hand pump bleeder from a buddy, I hooked up a flexible hose from the hand unit to the bleeder valve and slowly opened the valve while I pumped. It worked like a charm. Mine is an 85 sierra.

I went through a bottle of fluid before I got all the air out of it but it worked great. I also did NOT remove the slave from the truck. I read a bunch of places that the unit was supposed to be removed and tipped so the bleed valve was on top. This makes sense... as air would rise and get sucked out the bleed valve. But the way my slave was installed, it would risk breaking this metal line connecting it to the master cylinder. The replacement from o'reilly's was like 80 bucks so I just took a chance and it bled fine. IF you use the hand vac thing.

They're going for about 40 bucks on amazon, the hand pumps, gonna get me one soon.