Brand New Clutch Slave grenaded... why???

[AceHarding]

hey everybody!!! so i just replaced my clutch and clutch slave and when i went to bleed the clutch slave i pushed down on the pedal once and i heard a pop then the trickling sound of my bellhousing filling with clutch fluid! i pulled it out and it looks like the cylinder seal blew out... did I do something wrong? did this happen because i didnt gravity bleed it or fill it up first?... which wouldnt make sense because if there was air in the system then all that would happen is that it would compress and id have a soft pedal... Cheers!!

 

[Rick]

Sounds like a defective unit. I've never heard of that happening before...

Sucks that you have to tear it all down again

 

[Jason94sport]

Buy a Ford slave. They are better then anything else.

 

[AceHarding]

cool cool thx guys! thats whjat i was thinking... what a joke.. and the worst part is that it drained out my master and now the damn clutch wont bleed for the life of me and the damn clutch wont release.... grrrrrrrr... ****ty process to bleed these things!!!!!

 

[Rick]

You may have already done it this way, but here's some good info if you haven't seen it before:

http://www.explorer4x4.com/bleed.pdf