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Easiest way to remove air from clutch cylinders and line

Background We have been trying to bleed the clutch of my brother's Toyota Hiace 1999 for a week now (on our free times during the week).  There was dripping.  I removed the rubber cap but the inside of the cylinder was not wet, the drip was not from the piston rubber, it was from the outside.  I removed the slave from the bolts and found the pipe loose.  I realized the drip was not from the cylinder / piston but from the screw / link of the connecting pipe.  It was not tight because my brother mis-screwed it in, so it was re-creating its own thread.  Since it was already halfway in, I just force-screwed it in with a pipe wrench (because the hex screw had destroyed the bolt).  Until it stopped dripping.  This took the longest because of lack of space. So my dad and I were trying to bleed the clutch after the drip was gone.  We've done this to many of our older vehicles, but this one just didn't work out. So I went and read in the internet, trying to visualize where the