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Re: bleedin' brake failure part II

To: "Spridgets" <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: bleedin' brake failure part II
From: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Date: Sat, 29 May 1999 19:47:47 -0400
Reply-to: "Robert Duquette" <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Sender: owner-spridgets@autox.team.net
I guess this is where I become technically challenged ... wouldn't a leak in
the line somewhere, improve the flow at the suction end.  This just sits
there and retains suction pressure.  When I disconnect the thing, the bleed
valves drip.

Last weekend I had one wheel working.  I'm puzzled.  But I guess I've got to
enlist a helper to pump the brakes.

It's frustrating!  This morning was perfect cruising weather.

Robert D.

-----Original Message-----
From: Carolyn/Rick <walters@mail.softcom.net>
To: Robert Duquette <RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca>
Cc: Spridgets <spridgets@autox.team.net>
Date: May 29, 1999 5:57 PM
Subject: Re: bleedin' brake failure part II


>Hi Robert,
>
>I had the same problem with my brakes too.  Then I found out it was
leaking.
>One of the fittings had not been installed back the same way.  It was a
slow
>leak, a drop at a time.  This prevented the Mity-Vac from working.
>
>Rick
>
>Robert Duquette wrote:
>
>> Okay, what's the secret with the mitivacs (or whatever they are called)?
>>
>> I can't get the thing to work as a one person tool.
>>
>> The brakes will bleed the old fashioned way, but not with the mitivac
(okay,
>> one wheel works!).  Am I doing something wrong?  Pressure builds up, but
it
>> doesn't pull anything through.  If someone presses the pedal, fluid will
>> come through, while they are pressing.
>>
>> My time is gone for this morning.  It's dad, the chauffeur and baseball
>> coach now.
>>
>> Robert Duquette
>> Ottawa ON Canada
>> http://www3.sympatico.ca/robertduquette
>> RobertDuquette@Sympatico.ca
>> '65 RHD BRG Sprite
>
>--
>52 MGTD,Sparky    74 MGB, B-tris    76 XJ12 Coupe, Jacque
>60 Bugeye, Puddles      58 MGA Coupe, Ruby
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>
>
>


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