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What did I do wrong??

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Subject: What did I do wrong??
From: Tyson Sherman <tsherman@tecinfo.com>
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 1998 17:52:56 -0600
Somebody up there must not like me.  I put over 500 miles on my B last
week without a hitch, so Monday I decided to take it off the road to
rebuild the rear wheel cylinders (leaking).  What should have been a two
hour or so job has been three days in the making.
I rebuilt both cylinders (easy, I've done hydraulics before).  I start
to bleed them and a bleeder screw breaks off - threads to the cylinder
are stripped.  So I get a new cylinder, and put it on.  That was today.
I borrowed an EZ-Bleed.  I hook it up (to a pretty low tire - my press
gauge was broken but the tire was low) and the master cylinder reservoir
looks like it's going to blow up.  I open a bleeder screw and nothing
comes out.  I pump the pedal (with the EZ-Bleed disconnected) just to
see what it does, and the new cylinder leaks.  Fluid shoots out of the
rear-facing piston.  Maybe I can use the seals from the rebuilt cylinder
on the new one?
Will my B ever see the road again?  It's been in the 70s-80s every
afternoon this week and riding around in an air-conditioned Japanese car
is getting boring.

Very frustrated =(

--
Tyson Sherman
http://www.tecinfo.com/~tsherman



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