[Spridgets] Brake Bleed p.s.

[HealeyRick]

Hi Mike,

What I'm going to tell you will probably get the other Spridge folks upset
because it flies in the fact of common knowledge.  I can only tell you what
happened when we finished a disc brake swap on a friend's bugeye that had
already been started.  Initially, we purchased a new TRW 3'4" bore MC.  The
car had standard rear drum brakes.  Try as we might, we couldn't get a hard
pedal, even after installing stainless lines all around.  We screwed around
with pushrod adjustment, still no dice.  What we finally ended up doing was
purchasing one of these 7/8" inch MCs with an increased reservoir:
https://www.ebay.com/itm/200920716753?fits=Model%3ASprite&hash=item2ec7ced5d1:g:fdsAAOxy02dRf~cB
I'm not sure whether we trimmed the pushrods down a bit as well as it was
one of the many things we tried.  Might be worth a shot if you get
desperate.  My motto, "If it doesn't;t work, keep throwing new parts at it
until it does."

Happy Healeying,
Rick Neville

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On Tue, Jan 18, 2022 at 5:49 PM Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:

> Clearance on master pushrod correct.
> Mike
>
> On Tue, Jan 18, 2022, 12:53 PM Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
>
>> Should have asked this before, but did you change pushrods when you
>> changed masters?
>>
>> > On Jan 18, 2022, at 3:41 PM, Rick Fisk <refisk at chartermi.net> wrote:
>> >
>> > 
>> > Hi Mike,
>> >
>> > Do you have the proper clearance on the master pushrod at rest?
>> >
>> > Rick
>> >
>> >>> On Jan 18, 2022, at 2:41 PM, Michael MacLean via Spridgets <
>> spridgets at autox.team.net> wrote:
>> >>>
>> >> 
>> >> It's  a new AP Lockheed master.
>> >> Mike
>>
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