[Healeys] Brake theory - more....wheel cylinders

Oudesluys coudesluijs at chello.nl
Tue Oct 16 03:52:24 MDT 2012


On many cars this usually means that the left and right hand cylinder 
may have been interchanged. Is that the case at hand?
Kees Oudesluijs


Op 16-10-2012 8:26, fiat500f at aol.com schreef:
> OK, so the question brought up in the previous comments is this:  Since the
> wheel cylinder bleeder fittings are on the BOTTOM of the cylinders, and the
> air is obviously at the TOP of the cylinder, how do folks get the air out?  As
> Mike S. said, the pistons can be clamped into the cylinders, to lessen the
> volume inside the cylinder, but that may still leave a bit of air in there.
> Whenever I hit problems like this, problems that seem to be down to a initial
> design flaw (bleeders on the bottom), I always wonder how they did it at the
> factory.  They must have run into the same problem, with numerous cars coming
> down the line every day.  How did they get the air out there?
>
>   - Paul B.
>
> early BN4
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