At 06:51 PM 7/23/99 -0600, you wrote:
>I've been reading the discussion on spongy brakes, as I've been trying to
>bleed my brake system for most of this week. It's been too hot to spend a
>lot of time on it, but I've tried just about everything. Pumping the
>pedal; using a mityvac; and gravity bleeding. The fronts work just fine,
>but I can leave the rear bleder screw open all day and only get a few drops
>out of it. Do I have an obstruction somewhere? I have one more thing to
>try, I'll open both rear screws, hook a hose on one with the other end in a
>container of fluid, and the mityvac on the other bleeder. If it pulls
>fluid through that way, I'll know it's not in the rear pipe. I suppose it's
>possible that a little chunk of dirt got in one of the lines while the
>system was apart for a year, but the rears have always given me trouble.
>Any ideas?
>
>Calvin Krug
>'79 MGB
>
>
>
Yep, the rear part of your master cylinder's rubber is shot. I had the same
problem. New master cylinder....rock hard!
Tom Buchanan
buchanan@preferred.com
http://pages.preferred.com/~buchanan/mg.html
http://www.britcars.net/
1974 MGB-GT
Kingsport, TN
ICQ 21478018
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