Difficulties Bleeding a honda clutch

[jalen]

I bought a '90 honda accord 5spd as a daily driver. However when I bought it I never checked the clutch fluid. Drove it for 500 miles and eventually ran out. So I went to add more and bleed the clutch, and the pedal now goes straight to the floor. It was shooting fluid out in a steady stream. And still not building pressure. So I'm wondering is there a special way to bleed the clutch? On the honda forums they said you have to grabity bleed it, or get a high pressure bleeder, or my favorite go to the skate cylinder and pres the tob rod in pressing air through the brake cylinder.

[ggzilla]

And that's why we bought Datsuns.

 

Seriously? You want advice from a budget Datsun site instead of the Honda community?

 

OIC there advice is all over the map. Any of those methods will work for bleeding. Unfortunately when an old cylinder goes dry they sometimes stop working. Just throw a new cylinder on there and get it over with.

[Lonestar]

You have a Honda, there's the problem. :rofl:

[bananahamuck]

This sounds weird but fill master with fluid tighten bleeder screw and pump your pedal rapidly with your hand till pedal firms up. It works with Toyotas when they are leaky ,, so you never know.

[dime'n daily]

^ replaced my clutch on my s10. wouldn't build pressure for about a week. until I went on Mitchell at work and it told me to do that. worked on my truck

[jalen]

And that's why we bought Datsuns.

 

Seriously? You want advice from a budget Datsun site instead of the Honda community?

 

Well you see there is a lot of Older people on hear so I figured someone has probably changed a honda clutch here and can give me a straight forward answer.

[dime'n daily]

did you try what we said? if that doesn't work is the slave internal or external?

[Lonestar]

No, seriously, what Banana said. In all, a hydraulic clutch should be able to be bleed just like a brake system. It's when you get into newer or German cars is where you'll have special ways/tools to bleed them. A 90's Honda should be cake.

[ggzilla]

Except your has a leak. The fluid ran out. Most cars don't leak even after 10 years of not checkingthd fluid.