Could have been worse, you could have done this in front of a large group of
spridget owners...
-- umm
- never mind.
:-)
Dan
----- Original Message -----
From "Frank Clarici" <spritenut at exit109.com>
To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 10:02 PM
Subject: Aaagh!
> 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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