On Tue, 13 Jul 1999, Mike Ross wrote:
> Why would one need to bench bleed the brake master cylinder? I thought that
> if, for example, all my brake fluid leeked out and the master cylinder
> reservoir was empty I could correct whatever problem caused the leak and
> then simply bleed the brakes at each wheel starting from the furthest from
> the master cylinder. Wouldn't that eliminate ALL air from the system
> including the master cylinder?
Mike, with a lot of the Girling tandem master cylinders, it's rather
difficult (ok, it's a pain in the bu**!) to "prime" the cylinder via the
normal bleeding routine. The "bench bleeding" takes care of that and often
saves many pints/liters of largely nonrecyclable brake fluid.
--Andy
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