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- Subject: Recommendations for one-man brake bleedi
- Message-ID: <10292318.56866.2629@kcbbs.gen.nz>
- From: Steve_Baldwin@kcbbs.gen.nz (Steve Baldwin)
- Date: 14 Nov 92 15:47:46 GMT
- References: <5889@airs.com>
- Organization: Kappa Crucis Unix BBS, Auckland, New Zealand
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- Here's another simple idea ....
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- You need two jars or bottles with two pipes through the lid. One pipe
- stops just through the lid and the other goes to the bottom of the jar.
-
- A || B ||
- ____||________||___
- | || |
- | || |
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- A goes to the bottom.
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- Take the first jar and put a small amount of fluid into it. Attach a
- length of hose from the bleed nipple to A and put the jar on the ground
- next to the brake. If there isn't enough room there, you can conect
- the pipe to B and hang the jar upside down above the brake.
-
- Attach a piece of flat card or whatever you have to the lid of the second
- jar so that it can sit over the master cylinder with the cover removed.
- It can be held on the master cylinder with a rubber band or a cable
- tie. Fill this jar with new fluid and place it upside down over the
- master cylinder so that the outside end of pipe A is at the full level
- of the cylinder and outlet B will drop the fluid into the cylinder.
-
- Now just open the bleed valve, pump the pedal a couple of times and
- close the valve again. Couldn't be easier to do. Could be easier to
- describe. :-)
-
- Steve.
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