I want to point something out about the gasket. I may be totally wrong about why, but notice there are 2 diagonal channels in the bottom end of the gasket {channels point down}. I believe this is so that if the slave develops a leak it gives the fluid a place to run out and not get all in the bell housing. Maybe not......
You can see the marks from this on the tranny bell housing
OK, back in with the new slave
Put your 2 13mm back in and tighten down.
Next took me quite a while, and you could so profoundly screw-the-pooch here if you aren't careful. You have to thread the 12mm fitting back onto the top of the slave. Be so very careful not to cross thread here. I spent almost 15 minutes trying to make sure I got this right. In the end I was a little hesitant to put the wrench to it as I sure couldn't hand tighten it very far, but it worked out fine thank goodness.
NOW, the dreaded clutch bleeding:
After reading about clutch bleeding over the last 4 years I certainly wasn't looking forward to this. I did a bunch of searching this morning on the various ways to go about this.
I thought about using my still-never used pressure bleeder and bleeding from the slave fitting up through to the brake reservoir, but there really isn't any way to control the flow. It is just "on" or not.
So, basically I did pretty much the same thing, only using the right front brake caliper and reverse bled.
Worked well for me.
First I went and bought 3 feet of 3/16 fuel line and some Dot 4 brake fluid. I filled the brake fluid reservoir to full and I removed the clamp on the line from said reservoir that I installed earlier. I attached the 3/16 fuel line to the slave bleed nipple and opened it some.
The thought was to maybe let some fluid run down from the reservoir then connect it to the RF brake caliper bleed nipple. And, that worked pretty well. When I got a little drip I connected to the caliper nipple and opened it up. {Uh, btw, I opened it a little too far and puked brake fluid out during pedal pumping. Just an fyi}
So, just to clarify at this point, the brake fluid reservoir is full,
3/16 hose is attached at the slave cylinder and at the RF brake caliper and both bleed nipples are loose.
Then you simply step into the car, with the hood open and leaned/standing out the driver's door so you can see the line coming into the brake fluid reservoir and pump on the brake pedal and watch for bubbles to start floating up. {Which they did!} Oh, and you do nothing with the clutch pedal during this.
Now, like I said, I first left the RF caliper bleed nipple too loose and it oozed quite a bit of fluid, so I tightened everything back, opened them up a tad and pumped the brakes some more. When no more bubbles came up, but I could tell fluid was entering I tightened both nipples, started the car and prayed it would shift into reverse with out grinding. {I chose reverse in case the car crammed into gear and wanted to "go". Better to shoot off the ramps than over them.}
We'll see after I drive it awhile if I have to re-bleed. I'm hoping not.......
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