[DML] Clutch cylinders

["Joshua Weader" <weader@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm having problems with my (new) clutch slave.  I replaced the slave cylinder
and the rigid part of the clutch line.  The bleeder screw had broken off, but
the clutch system was functional at the time, so I did not replace the master
cylinder.  I bled the system with fresh fluid, took the car for a test drive,
and everything seemed ok.  Two days later, all the fluid had drained out of
the system.  I was not able to determine whether it had leaked out of an end
of the clutch line, or out of one of the cylinders.

1.  Was I ok to just change out the slave, or did I ruin the new slave by
doing just one, and I now have to replace both of them?

2.  Someone mentioned a while ago that bleeding an existing system can damage
the internal seals in the slave cylinder by forcing internal corrosion through
the seals.  Is this true, and if it is, how can anyone ever bleed their system?

Thanks,

--Josh
#5553

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