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Aaagh!

To: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Aaagh!
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 2004 22:02:03 -0500
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So tonight I was hooking up the exhaust hangers on the Yellow Bugeye and 
I see a wet wheel on the other side of the car.
Wet like in leaky wheel cylinder. And I was NOT about to fight with an E 
clip. So I have new wheel cyls in stock, why not just swap out the 
pistons and be done? I do it, clean and replace the shoes, reinstall the 
drum and wheel, adjust the brakes and check the pedal. Still hard, no 
bleeding needed. BUT.... It's still leaking!
So on a second attempt at "messing around" inside the wheel cylinder, I 
notice fluid coming out of the bleeder. I never touched the bleeder 
since I bled the brakes 2 months ago.
So a loose bleeder nipple will cause fluid to drip out on your tire.
I guess that explained why the inside of the drum was dry.

So what I could have fixed in a minute, but should have never been 
"wrong" in the first place. caused me a few hours of unneccessary work 
tonight.

Old age is rapidly creeping up on me.
-- 
Frank Clarici
Toms River, NJ
Back up to too many sprites again.
http://www.exit109.com/~spritenut/






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