classic 900 clutch advice

Classic signs of air in the lines, yes.

That's your fix.

Yes, it's likely to be worn, but the symptoms you describe don't match that as being the problem for your car. That only adds a bit of slop at the top of the stroke, it doesn't change things dramatically as you're describing. Definately an air situation.

Might be as easy as opening the bleeder nipple on the slave cylinder, letting the fluid (and hopefully, bubbles) escape there, while keeping the reservoir topped off. Let it run until it comes out clear rather than the black crud that's in there. Either way that won't hurt to do, and it's likely to fix your problem. If not, there are a couple other options.

Dave Hinz

If you're bleeding the clutch using a pressure bleeder, make sure you keep the fluid reservoir quite full while you're doing it. ALthough the line to the clutch master comes from the bottom of the reservoir, the inlet is actually surprisingly high up inside the tank.

John

From my workshop I was told they used a spesial tool for this. I made one from a syringe and a narrow plastic tube . With the syringe I made a wacum to bleed the air from the clutch side. It worked. Bleeding like you normaly bleed a brake system did not work out.

Good luck!