So, I have a 2003 touring, and I swapped in a CD009 this weekend. But when I got everything back together, I couldn't disengage the clutch. tracked it down to no pressure at my slave cylinder. And, when I went to bleed it, I couldn't get any fluid to bleed out. I put a vacuum pump on it, and still nothing, and now the pedal has no pressure at all? this leads me to believe that somehow my master went from working to not working in between the swap. just want a little piece of mind, and see if anyone either agrees with me, or had the same problem with a different result.

 

air in lines.

vacuum bleeding won't work. I just posted the same thing in another thread today. there are hundreds of topics covering bleeding our clutches. it's hard, it takes hours...

and yes, air in the lines WILL cause nothing to come out of the slave cylinder when you open it to try to vac bleed. Exactly why you can't vac bleed this system.