How Do I ????

jhiggins · #1 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Does anyone know how or where I should start to bleed my hydrolic clutch???? Got water in the resivor and don't know how to bleed it. Someone said I do this at the transmission.....It is an 1988 YJ 258 :-? :-? [addsig]

tarsij · #2 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I have one word for you: CHILTON. Those things have all the answers.

TARSI[addsig]

Tug-n-pull · #3 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Not sure if you have an internal or external slave cylinder on you clutch. Crawl up in under there and take a flash light and look under and on each side of your bell houseing and look for a bledder valve on the end of a tube. That will be it! just get a wrench to fit the bleeder and some one to pump it up and there you go. Best of luck and wish I could be of more help to you. I would take some paper towles and wick out all the water and fluid in the resivor and replace it with fresh fluid prior to starting the bleed thing to avoid the water from entering the line even more than it already has. Tug[addsig]

jhiggins · #4 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Hmmmmm ok sounds good to me why didn't I think of that I am glad TUG is here to pick up the slack....thanks again TUG :-D [addsig]

hi_c · #5 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

I'm not sure how similar the AX-15 and the AX-5 are, but I have an 89 YJ 4cylinder with the AX-5 and the Clutch bleeder is on the Passenger side of the Transmission. It looks like a skinny brass hex-cylinder, so you can get a wrench on it. Have someone press the clutch in your jeep while you open the valve and let it squirt out. Then close it, release the pedal, then press the pedal, and open the valve again. Repeat until bled. Be sure to close the bleeder valve before releasing the pedal, otherwise you'll get more air in the lines. HTH.

C[addsig]

mandarrin · #6 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

hey i got an 89 too.how do i make my cluth alittle harder?is to soft now[addsig]

hi_c · #7 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

too soft? I don't think you can adjust the tension of the clutch pedal, but I've been wrong before.

C[addsig]

Snitty · #8 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

bleeding it will give it a harder feel... it will bring your contact point away from the floor.. everything has its advantage and disadvantage... on the trail, if your contact point is too high, you lose your clutch range, and starting on hills will be a pain because you have to bring your foot through a higher range of useless clutch play... but then, while shifting, you don't have to floor it, you only have to push it down a little past the contact point, which makes shifting easier[addsig]

jhiggins · #9 (**permalink**) 07-20-2003, 08:00 PM

Ok I found it and got it taken care of on 4 cyl. it is on the passenger side and on inline 6 it is on the driver side thanks for all the help guys!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :-D [addsig]