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Re: Brake Servo Install

To: "Scot paulson" <SPAULSON1@compuserve.com>,
Subject: Re: Brake Servo Install
From: "Bob Spidell" <bspidell@pacbell.net>
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 17:34:51 -0700
Scot,

Can only cite my experience having R&R'd a servo recently.
I use a homemade pressure bleeder (Shraeder valve attached to
a modified reservoir cap, with 5psi or so from my compressor), 
and bleed the brakes in the usual order (farthest first, etc.).  

I've also bled the brakes using the "pump the pedal" method 
after cylinder work with no problems.  The fluid seems to travel
throughout the system with no restrictions (the servo essentially
has two additional cylinders that are plumbed in "parallel," not 
"series").


bs
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Bob Spidell         San Jose, CA        bspidell@pacbell.net
'67 Austin-Healey 3000             '56 Austin-Healey 100M
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> Besides the obvious headaches of reinstalling a vacuum brake  booster(mine
> is freshly rebuilt), I wondered if there is anything special to do when it
> comes to bleeding the brakes once it is back in the car? 
> I see this area as the brake system "weak link" and am trying to prevent
> air getting in this part of the system. 
> As always, any help appreciated.
> 
> 
> Scot
> '66 BJ8

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