Reverse bleeding is fairly easy if you have an air compressor. You'll need to
catch the fluid in a clean drink bottle using a long pipe that goes to the
bottom of the bottle. Bleed normally until about 3/4 of the reservoir is gone,
then put an air duster gun into the bottle neck and loosely seal with a rag to
'blow' the fluid back to the master cylinder. Only needs a few psi so drop the
pressure right down. Hopefully the air will bubble up into the reservoir
without it overflowing first.
I wonder if you could undo the pipe fitting going into the caliper and let the
air bubbles out of there.
Andy.
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On Mon, 4/7/16, Roger Grace <roggrace@telus.net> wrote:
Subject: Re: [Healeys] BJ8 Brakes
To: "Andy Thorp" <bce257@yahoo.co.nz>, "'Healey List'" <healeys@autox.team.net>
Received: Monday, 4 July, 2016, 5:31 AM
Yes these are the beasts.
Thanks for that Andy and to all for numerous
ideas.
Yes, and given all the
bleeding have done it hopefully is the issue.
This morning I took 3/4 of a jam jar (almost a
reservoir) of fluid out of
each wheel;
minimal air came out using a vacuum pump.
Some minor improvement and pedal now about an
inch from floor on first pump
and car is ...
maybe driveable.
As I don't have a
helper have to use this technique; it took but 10 mins to
bleed when I recently changed out my
booster; have also ordered some
Russell
Speed Bleeders.
Not quite
sure how to address this reverse bleeding procedure that
Andy
suggests.
I have a
vacuum pump that have been using to bleed with and it does
not
involve any pedal pumping.
Was thinking of trying to suck from the booster
bleeder, from each calliper
in turn -
any thoughts ?
Tkx
rg
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