Date: Fri, 08 Oct 1999 22:06:01 +0200 From: Robert Brown <rjbnopsamAMtripnet.se> Subject: Re: clutch replacement 84 900 s
Hi, Right you are about bleeding the air from the clutch hydraulics via pressurising the brake fluid reservoir from above, but I'd venture to say that you can usually replace the clutch without disconnecting the slave cylinder from the feed pipe. Which means that if you have no air in the hydraulic system _before_ replacing the clutch, you probably won't have more once the clutch is replaced. Which means that you should be able to avoid having to bleed air out of the clutch hydraulics. I've replaced two clutches on two 1983's (99GL and 900 GL) and haven't had to bleed the system afterwards. OTOH I work very slowly, takes about 4-5 hours for me ;-) // Robert "James H. E. Maugham" wrote: > trevor davis wrote: > > > > is replacing a clutch in a 84 900 S a job for the home mechanic or is it > > best left to the pros? > > any ideas? > > The 900 should be as easy as replacing the clutch was in my old 99, and > I had that down to less than two hours total time working completely > alone. > > The two most important "tools" were an old sparkplug wire which I used > to hold the pressure plate fingers depressed (depress the clutch, place > a piece of wood or pipe between pedal and seat to hold pedal depressed, > shove sparkplug wire between fingers and pressure plate housing, remove > pedal depressor) and an extra clutch M/C reservoir cap that I had > drilled to install an air valve in it. > > The air valve allowed me to bleed the slave cylinder without a helper. > Two or three strokes with a bike pump would pressurize it sufficiently > to bleed the system. > > Regards, > > James
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