Thanks Craig,
I just went through the same thing and ended up getting my son to pump the
brake pedal. I thought that I may have had a leak where I didn't tighten
down a fitting, till I was able to successfully bleed the system the old
fasioned way. Had I not seen your post, I may have given up on my MityVac.
Mike Ross
----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Smith" <csmith1@awcwire.com>
To: "SpitList (Spit list)" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: bleed screws
> I learned something last night!
> I have a Mityvac,(great little tool), and I was helping a friend bleed
some
> brakes on a custom 71 C10 Chevy pickup. We bought a disk brake kit for the
> rears and as I was using the vac. I was getting a lot of air through the
> line at the connection point of the hose and the nipple. I thought that
> maybe it was air coming through the system but I wasn't getting much fluid
> with it.
> I went to the web site and looked at the instruction page and Mityvac
> recommends Teflon tape around the threads of the nipple.
> I removed the nipples and wrapped them with the tape and man what a
> difference. What was going on was air was traveling past the threads, so
all
> I was doing was sucking outside air and not getting a good suction on the
> line.
> The link is
> http://www.mityvac.com/
>
>
> Craig Smith
> Office 864/289-0933
> Fax 864/289-9645
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