[Spridgets] Very productive vintage car afternoon : )

[Linda Grunthaner]

After receiving a reply that I was supposed to bleed from the farthest back
to the master I reread the manual that came with my single handed bleeder
kit. It says bleed from the closest wheel to the master to the farthest. Why
would they get it backwards? Maybe I should email them?
Lin

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 3:25 PM, Linda Grunthaner <grunthaner at gmail.com>wrote:

> List,
> I'm in a big hurry trying to get my vintage cars road worthy for the fall
> so I can use the garage in the winter this year. I thought I'd have Pinky's
> passengers seat installed today because I finally found the bolts I bought
> for the seat rails which were oddly metric, but after I screwed them into
> the floor I realized there is something missing I must have misplaced the
> rails that sandwitch between the seat bottom and the floor rail so I moved
> onto the bus (VW Split window camper). But I still felt good about finding
> the bolts and screwed the rails in ; )
>
> Off to the bus I got her running a week or 2 ago but I needed to bleed the
> brakes before I could drive her out of the garage. I bought a single handed
> brake bleeder last year and crawled under the bus going from nearest to the
> master cylinder to farthest. I wasn't very happy with the results so being I
> do most all my work alone I rigged up a peddle hold-down rod and bleed the
> brakes the old fashioned way  with a jar of brake fluid and hose. Oddly the
> old fassioned way worked better than that $30. single handed bleeder kit.
> What a POS I should have never bought it. But very glad I have brake
> pressure. Still not enough time to get her out of the garage today as I'm
> sure there will be other snags in the way I'm patient for next weekend as
> I'll drive her out after 2 years and get the glass in. I'm thinking of some
> methods of single handed methods for that to ; )
>
> Lin