[Healeys] Bleeding brakes

[Larry Varley]

Kees, this is not a rare occurrence in a BN1, stop and take a look at 
the BN1 front wheel cylinder layout. If the brakes are not de adjusted 
there is an air pocket in the wheel cylinders above the height of the 
bleed screw. The air will be very difficult to bleed out as it is 
trapped. I have advised many to do this and they found an immediate 
improvement in the bleeding process and improvement in pedal firmness.
Regards
Larry Varley

On 8/07/2015 4:44 PM, Oudesluys wrote:
> I have used an Eezibleed or similar lightly pressurized system for 
> over 50 years and it has always worked for me on a very large range of 
> vehicles.
> A one man job that is done efficiently and quickly.
> As remarked before, it is generally a good idea to adjust back your 
> drum brakes and push back the calliper pistons (using e few small 
> wedges between pads and discs) to minimise the volume in the brake 
> cylinders and callipers if the bleed nipples are positioned in such a 
> way that air can remain trapped in the cylinders or callipers, 
> although this is a fairly rare occurrence.
>
> Kees Oudesluijs
>
>

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