[DeTomaso] Help needed with clutch slave

[Tomas Gunnarsson]

Chris,

The bleeders seal in a way similar to brake lines by pushing a cone shaped tip into a seat in the cylinder body and do not benefit from thread tape.

Tomas

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
To: <artstephens at verizon.net>; "Pantera List Serve" <detomaso at realbig.com>
Sent: Friday, May 08, 2009 8:03 AM
Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Help needed with clutch slave


>I only loosened it, I never removed it so I didn't even think of that!  
> 
> Although, the leak was from out of the little hole rather than around the threads, so I'm not sure if it would have helped in this case.
> 
> I did help when I found my fuel pump was leaking from the outgoing fitting.  I took out the fitting, wire-brushed the threads, put on some teflon tape (careful not to get any close the the edge risking it getting into the gas) and once back on, the leak stopped.
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Chris
> 
> 
> 
>> From: artstephens at verizon.net
>> To: chrisvkimball at msn.com; detomaso at realbig.com
>> Subject: Re: [DeTomaso] Help needed with clutch slave
>> Date: Thu, 7 May 2009 22:57:17 -0700
>> 
>> Hello Chris,
>>      I helped another Pantera owner bleed his clutch system recently and we 
>> had to use thread tape to stop the leaking.
>> 
>> Art
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: "Christopher Kimball" <chrisvkimball at msn.com>
>> To: "Pantera List Serve" <detomaso at realbig.com>
>> Sent: Thursday, May 07, 2009 9:21 PM
>> Subject: [DeTomaso] Help needed with clutch slave
>> 
>> 
>> >
>> > I just bled my new slave, and when I pushed the clutch down to see if it 
>> > worked, it started to, then fluid shot out of the little valve.  I don't 
>> > want to overtighten it and break it off, or is my problem the bleed valve 
>> > just isn't tight enough?
>> >
>> > Thanks,
>> >
>> > Chris
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