E30 slave cylinder bleeding

[glee60]

E30 guys... (Saige, Ben, and Eric!) have any of you guys dealt with BMW slave cylinders and their bleeding before?

[EWAustin]

Nope, would assume it's the same as bleeding brakes, one person pushes the pedal whilest the other opens and closes the bleeder screw. (isn't yours snapped off?)

[glee60]

New one finally, and BMW's creative ass engineers flipped the thing upside down so the valve is on the bottom thus doing a greatttt job of trapping the air!

[EWAustin]

unbolt it from the tranny, turn it right side up then bleed.

Saige, what does your bentley say?

[glee60]

But see how does one pump it unbolted from the tranny... nothing to put the piston against so it goes pop! and then it's new slave cylinder time :/

I second the Saige + Bentley notion... :thumbup:

[Fearnside]

I could look through my bently in the morning. I'm changing my fuel filter so, I could look at it at that time.

[glee60]

Beautiful! Thanks Ben! (Sorry I couldn't make it down today... :headsmash: )
I think I'm going to go ahead and order up a MC anywho as I found one for $65 which seems fairly reasonable to me... Plus I'm willing to bet after 10 hours of bleeding, that there's no way any damn air evaded me! I got entirely to creative in my process :cool:

[thebionicman]

I put my motiv pressure bleader on the system and go crack the valve open. I know you are suppose to pull it off and put a special tool to make sure the piston doesn't go flying out. I flush my entire system once a season and have never had a problem doing it that way.

[glee60]

If only I had a motiv power bleeder... Meh, already ordered a new MC as I'm 99% sure it's the culprit of this mess.