[Mgs] Brakes won't bleed

[Michael Singleton]

Check the steel line from the tee connection to the wheel cylinder. We
frequently find them crushed, usually by a tow truck operator with a great
steel hook.

Mike

Michael Singleton
Sportscars Ltd
10170 Croydon Way
Suite M
Sacramento, CA 95826

Mike at sportscarslimited.net
(916)366-0330
www.sportscarslimited.net

-----Original Message-----
From: mgs-bounces+mike=sportscarslimited.net at autox.team.net
[mailto:mgs-bounces+mike=sportscarslimited.net at autox.team.net]On Behalf Of
Keith G.
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 6:51 AM
To: mgs at autox.team.net
Subject: [Mgs] Brakes won't bleed


Saturday I got the gumption to get back in the garage and work on my
'79 B again.  I've had a few niggling things that needed addressed,
and one big one:  The rear brakes would not get brake fluid to them.

I brought this problem up here before, and consensus pointed to the
brake master cylinder being the culprit.  I installed a new master
cylinder and proceeded to retry bleeding the system.  The fronts took
a lot longer than I would have thought, but eventually they spewed
air-free fluid.  I was encouraged.

That didn't last long.  The right rear still would not get fluid
after more than half an hour of pedal pumping.  There *is* a short
column of fluid in the rubber tube I have hooked up to the valve, and
it is growing at an imperceptible rate.  I have speed-bleeder valves
installed, so I don't think that little bit of fluid is a result of
gravity; I think *something* is happening, but it should not be
taking this long to pump fluid to the rear brakes, should it?

As if that wasn't enough, I noticed another problem while I was under
the car.  I'll hit that in another post.

--
Keith G.
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