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Re: Gravity Brake Bleeding

To: Engstrom <engstrom@onramp.net>
Subject: Re: Gravity Brake Bleeding
From: "Daniel J. Radcliffe" <kf9bp@execpc.com>
Date: Wed, 12 May 1999 13:12:21 -0500 (CDT)
Get a Mityvac.  Suck it through.  Works great for me.

Dan Radcliffe
Sussex, WI
'82 Z-28 CP

On Wed, 12 May 1999, Engstrom wrote:

> So I was going into a sharp turn at the end of a long straight this past
> weekend.  I transition my foot from the gas to the brake pedal and
> as quickly and smoothly as possible push down the brake pedal....but
> what's this, the brake pedal drops very easily to the floor.  Ugh Oh!!
> So I start to pump the brake and get some brake pressure back.  Of
> course I overshot the corner but I did get my car slowed down in time
> to not plow through a bunch of cones.
> 
> I didn't experience any problems during the rest of that run or at
> any time after that but I think it's probably a good idea to bleed the
> brakes anyway.  Does it seem reasonable that the problem is with
> boiled/water-soaked fluid?  Would I have experienced low pedal
> on the rest of my run if that were the case?  The other question is
> has anyone gravity bled an ABS equipped car?  Any reason it
> shouldn't work?  I have a '99 C5 (OK, so actually the '99 is my wife's
> car and the '98 is mine) and don't want to have to ask my wife to sit
> in the car and hold down the pedal - she likes autocrossing but I
> have to ease her gently into working on the car so it's not a constant
> battle when we move to BSP and spend lots of time wrenching on the
> car. ;-)))))  Besides, the idea of removing the master cylinder cap,
> filling up the master cylinder with brake fluid, opening up a bleeder
> screw and then sitting back with a beer or two while gravity does
> its thing is much more appealing to me.
> 
> Thanks,
> John "No, not that one" Engstrom
> 


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