Had a couple of hours today so popped down to the garage, fitted the clutch master cylinder and then made up the hose from the clutch slave (Mondeo slave)

I then had an unsuccessful go at bleeding the clutch. First of all I used a syringe to backfill the system from the clutch slave bleed nipple through to the the m/c reservoir. That all went well. Then had a go at bleeding the clutch in the 'normal' way with the bleed nipple. Then I noticed a puddle of fluid under the bellhousng. Panic and first thought was that the hose inside must be leaking. Mopped up and with the bleed nipple shut pumped away on the pedal like mad and no sign of any leaks. Then tried bleeding again and there was fluid dripping again. So I am guessing that this is the bleed nipple leaking fluid so all is hopefully fine.

At the moment the peal is always going to the floor and I'm struggling to bleed it, I've tried the normal bleed nipple method, I've also tried pulling the cylinder through with a syringe but I just get lots of air and no fluid through to the syringe or level drop in the reservoir so I suspect it is pulling air through the bleed nipple.

The clutch M/C is lower than the slave so and the hose goes in the top of the bellhousing so I doubt any of that helps. Will have to see if my easibleed will fit the wilwood M/c reservoir.

In the meantime any tips or advice on clutch bleeding would be appreciated.

Cheers

Dave

Always difficult, keep going, doesn't take much air. On my Imp, I had to bleed the thing with the engine running to get the bubbles out, presumably the vibes helped.

OK... if it's the standard Mundaneo set-up the slave is in the gearbox bellhousing, so, of course, if the seals have gone you'll have to bite the bullet and get to it. That's the worse case, but at least the seals are cheap.

If you can dismount the m/cyl and raise it to bleed the system, that might help with your trapped air. I have an issue with my modded Series II Landrover, in that I've got to remove the slave (it's external) and hold it inverted while I try and bleed it, then it goes back on (repeat many, many times). The thing also has front brakes where the fluid enters at the top of the backplate and bleeds from the bottom(!). Removal, rotate, bleed, replace, remove....

Just keep on going, it's air or a leak.