Clutch damper bypassed

[thelinja]

I went to bleed my clutch this afternoon and the bleeder valve on the damper seemed rather weak. I ended up accidentally stripping the threads and breaking the seal on the valve when I tightened it. :duh: So I just bypassed the damper altogether and just bent the hard line that fed into the damper and connected it to the soft line that goes to the SC. Anyone else ever do this before? The clutch feels a lot more responsive now, but I can feel vibrations when the clutch is engaging/disengaging in my foot on the pedal. I guess that is why the damper was there.

[AKADriver]

Interesting. My car's slave cylinder is leaking, so I want to do this. What are the vibrations like? Does it kick like a brake pedal when ABS hits, or is it more like a magic fingers foot massage? hahaha.

[DuffMan]

It feels like your foot is gently crushing glass.

[speeddreamz]

remember, the dampner box will not help ur slave cylinder, make sure you get a new one and soon. Sometimes you can get somewhat stranded when the slave cylinder, if it busts on u, the clutch pedal will go all the way down, clutch won't work. But bypassing the box does really help bleeding, its so fast without the dampner box!

[AKADriver]

No shit, eh? :p I know I have to replace the slave, this will make the job go a lot faster, since the real time consuming part of that job is the bleeding.

The clutch works just fine for now as long as I keep filling the reservoir before it drains completely. Obviously that's not an acceptable solution.

[knightrider]

i think removing the damper box from the clutch was one of the first things i did, along with changing the rubber line for a SS line. so much nicer,

[Daniel240sx]

i think removing the damper box from the clutch was one of the first things i did, along with changing the rubber line for a SS line. so much nicer,

werd. did that when I swapped mine from auto->manual.

[sykikchimp]

there are a couple companies that make SS clutch lines to replace the crappy rubber one.

I changed it, and I think it made a small difference in clutch feel, but the time cut on bleeding the clutch is the big benefit.

[RBS14]

there's pics and a small how to on www.zeroyon.com for any of you that want to do it. I'm going to be doing it soon when i throw a new clutch in.

[mjjstang]

I paid like 40 for my stainless line. I think I got it from enjuku or something. same thing happened to my friends, went to loosen the fitting and it snapped right off, luckily it left a piece in cause we never put anything in its place and it doesnt leak.

[thx247]

Noticed no difference between a SS line as a plain old rubber line. The biggest difference is bleed time and ease when you dump the buffer line.

The added noise is sorta annoying but its worth not having to mess with that return line crap.