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Re: Bleeding Breaks

To: "'spitfires@autox.team.net'" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: Bleeding Breaks
From: nikolai jaremka <njaremka@yahoo.com>
Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 11:01:25 -0700 (PDT)


what you might try doing is jacking up the rear of the car
as high as you can get it, then let it sit over night. 
this should help all the air in the system filter through
to the ends of the lines.  then the next night try bleeding
the brakes again.

--- Kurt Strassner <Kurt.Strassner@trcinc.com> wrote:
> 
> Hello All.
> 
>       I'm currently attempting to bleed my break system. ('75
> Spit, Tandem
> M/C) After spending the last two nights, 4 hours each,
> pressing the break
> pedal over and over, I'm willing to acknowledge I need
> help. Here is my
> situtation...
> 
>       When I attempt to bleed the rear wheels (starting with
> the furthest
> wheel from the M/C), I get nothing but air from both
> wheels, and the fluid
> level in the M/C plastic bottle never gets any lower. I
> *can*, however,
> bleed the front two wheels with no problem. 
> 
>       What would cause the front wheels to bleed, but not the
> rear ones?
> 
>       I have rebuilt the break M/C (new seals and tipper
> valve) which did
> not fix the problem.
> 
>       The break system was working fine before I put the car
> up on jacks
> to rebuild the rear suspension and rear drivetrain. If I
> introduced a small
> hole in the rear break line somewhere, would it cause the
> symtoms above? If
> so, how would I go about finding it.
> 
>       Could the problem be with the M/C?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Kurt Strassner
> 
> '75 Red Spit
> '77 Yellow Spit
> 

===
nikolai jaremka
72 spitfire mkIV
east aurora, new york

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