[Mgs] Brakes won't bleed

[Hans Duinhoven]

When you tackle a brake system fault, it may well be worth to clean the 
inner brakelines.
I was lucky to have all brake lines from the GT when restoring it.
So I discovered that over the years there is a lot of dirt contaminated into 
the brake lines.
I decided to replace all flex hoses and flush the metal brake lines with an 
alcohol cleaning fluid.
What a dirt came from these lines was enormous!

After reassembling all brake lines and having replaced the flex lines and 
rear slave cylinders bleeding was a piece of cake.
Beware this dirt also contaminates into the drum brake rear cylinders over 
the years and may well clog the bleed hole.

4wiw

Cheers,

Hans

71 BGT finally driving well after engine overhaul

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Richard Ewald" <richard.ewald at gmail.com>
To: "Keith G." <kger at plex.com>
Cc: <mgs at autox.team.net>
Sent: Monday, August 25, 2008 8:48 PM
Subject: Re: [Mgs] Brakes won't bleed


> For what is it worth I have had many cases where there is a blockage right
> at the bleeder screw at a caliper/wheel cylinder.  Before you go 7 kinds 
> of
> crazy, you might want to unscrew the bleeder off of the caliper and use a
> needle or ice pick make sure the hole is free and clear into the wheel
> cylinder.
> Also did you bench bleed the master before installing it?  If you did not
> this could be a large part of the problem.