[Mgs] Brake frustrations

[Max Heim]

Are you getting any fluid to the rear system at all? Try undoing the hard
line to one of the rear cylinders.

Faulty rear cylinders right out of the box is a real possibility, these
days.

Has the car been on a flatbed tow recently? It can happen that when the
operator secures a chain or strap around the rear axle, it flattens the hard
line, preventing any fluid flow. Solution is to replace the steel brake
line.


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 7/13/09 9:50 AM, Keith G. at kger.mg at gmail.com wrote:

> So my '79 B is sitting up on jackstands while a summer marches on.  I'm
> frustrated with the brakes, being unable to get fluid to the rear bleed
> valves.
> 
> The background is this:  I finally got around to replacing the rear brake
> cylinders, as one was leaking.  After getting that done, I was able to bleed
> the brakes to get good pressure in the pedal and good, clear fluid coming
> out of each valve.  Feeling good about that, I moved on to other matters
> that needed tending to.
> 
> The next time I tried he brake pedal, it went to the floor.  Any subsequent
> bleed attempts have failed.  I can get great pressure to the fronts, but
> nothing good is happening at the rear.  A replacement master cylinder helped
> only the depletion of my dollars.  Someone I talked to suggested I just
> remove the valves and let gravity do its thing to see if any fluid leaks
> out.  Well, not in this case.
> 
> Any ideas would be much appreciated.  I want to get this thing back on the
> road this summer if possible.  Our summers here in the upper American
> midwest are entirely too short.