Jim, thank you so much for the detailed and relevant reply. I would have been very upset if I rendered my car imobile by doing a simple bleed. I am now not sure if I want to go ahead with the clutch bleed. I know, I know, I should do it since it was never done on this car and I am approaching 50K miles. Last time I did the brakes I skipped the clutch. I am not very confident now about it with the consequences being a dead vehicle. I'll see what my gut tells me when I actually get down to do the job. I wonder what the service manual says about this procedure. I don't have a problem with pumping the power bleeder to 20 psi, but it just seems strange that the system would suck in air during bleeding. Just doesn't make sense. And what do you mean by self-bleed? Self-bleed where? Won't the air stay in the system forever? Or is the system not hermetically sealed?

Thanks again fir very valueable info!

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Vladimir. '98 S70 base, 5-speed manual - his, '93 945 - hers,