Evangelos:
Course the first thing to do is find out where all your previous brake
fluid went!! Once you fix the leak(s) then I'm afraid there isn't an
easier way to bleed the brakes except the traditional two person
pump-and-open/close bleeder method. Instead of pressure bleeding, you
could alternatively try to reverse- bleed each wheel from the bleeder
end with a length of hose and a hand pump of some type. However, if
you've had the master cyl out you really need to "bench bleed" it and
the wheel cyls before you reinstall it/them, and keep the fluid level up
in the master cyl as you bleed. It may take awhile and be a pain, but
it will work. I have a Farina Magnette Mark III....with the front drums
instead of the disks as you have.
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Date: Fri, 19 Apr 2002 19:41:39 +0300
From: "Evangelos G. Makris" <egmakris@otenet.gr>
Subject: brake bleeding a Magnette Mk4
Well, there's a Farina MG here, with a totally dead brake pedal and not
a drop of fluid in its standard Girling single-line system. My eezibleed
has no cap that fits the master and, besides, the BL workshop manual
says pressure bleeding on Girlings is out of the question.
Then it goes on to describe a really elaborate brake bleeding procedure
with "one fairly fast complete stroke followed by two or three rapid but
not all the way down strokes and tighten the bleeder at the end of the
last and slow downstroke"
Sounds like a three-person job and lots of acrobatics...anything easier?
Evangelos
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