| If you removed the clutchline connection at the top of the slave you may want to just make sure the hole for the fluid aligns with the tube when screwing it back in - you may have to add/remove washers or rotate tube slightly. If misaligned I imagine it can reduce the pressure of the fluid getting into the slave (though, I had it misaligned by 180o and had somehow still bled it). You're also supposed to pump a couple of times with the cover/seal removed on the master (bleed valve tightened) to remove air in the master - don't know if that really does anything though. Also, release the lever *slowly* after tightening the nipple (you should see the level go down in the master during this time). Could you have a leaky slave seal? You would likely have seen fluid around the pushrod when you removed the slave if this was the case but only if you were looking carefully - I don't think a total leak is necessary to stop it from working. I still don't trust the seal on Ducati slaves after being stranded remotely - just checked the seal on my Evoluzione one after a couple of thousand miles and looks fine (though clutch is strangely biting later than usual and friction plates look fine - maybe I've a bleeding problem too but spent an hour or so rebleeding and no difference). Another recurring problem I have is the pushrod bearing on the clutch side keeps locking after a few thousand miles - this can result in the pushrod spinning at the speed of the engine inside the slave cylinder - I'm convinced it's one of the root causes for slave cylinders failing (esp. the Ducati ones with the flimsy single seal). If you've a stock slave and you're bike's <2001 I'd recommend an after market slave like the evoluzione one (I don't know whether Ducati have really fixed this problem on later bikes - I know their seal on the re-engineered slave for the '99 996 didn't look like a significant improvement to me. Good luck  |