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1. brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:28:07 -0600
Is alcohol appropriate to clean up and assemble the calipers if I want to switch to silicone brake fluid. I know the pistons are hard to push in past new rubber seals without some lubrication. What t
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00027.html (7,028 bytes)

2. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:05:22 +0000
Usual things to clean brake lines etc with is methylated spirit - or as you septics call it, denatured alcohol. James 69 Signal Red Spit
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00028.html (7,283 bytes)

3. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 13:39:50 -0600
SEPTICS? You want to explain what that means in cockney. Or whatever british dialect. I was referring to isopropyl alcohol. Perhaps it's the same. Larry
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00030.html (7,459 bytes)

4. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 19:45:56 +0000
LOL! I've already been asked by Howard to explain myself! Septic tanks... yanks.... it's all friendly... don't worry... James 69 Signal Red Spit
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00031.html (7,158 bytes)

5. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 14:01:49 -0600
It's not friendly. Larry british
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00032.html (7,635 bytes)

6. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: Bob Van Kirk <racerbob70@yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 12:04:29 -0800 (PST)
If the kits come with assembly grease use it, if not, then just use whatever type of brake fluid you will be puting in the system as the lubricant.... __________________________________ Check out th
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00033.html (7,566 bytes)

7. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: James Carruthers <j.carruthers@rave.ac.uk>
Date: Sun, 07 Nov 2004 21:08:20 +0000
Cockney rhyming slang has nothing to do with the rhyme bit... its just used if it happens to rhyme... no offence was intended at all... http://www.cockneyrhymingslang.co.uk/ James
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00034.html (7,112 bytes)

8. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Larry Vaughan" <lvaughan@pldi.net>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:46:35 -0600
Very interesting. Joe should look up Curry! Larry
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00035.html (7,475 bytes)

9. RE: brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Joe Curry" <spitlist@COX.NET>
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 16:40:56 -0700
Some things are better left unknown! :) Joe --Original Message-- From: spitfires-owner@Autox.Team.Net [mailto:spitfires-owner@Autox.Team.Net] On Behalf Of Larry Vaughan Sent: Sunday, November 07, 200
/html/spitfires/2004-11/msg00037.html (7,272 bytes)

10. Brakes (score: 1)
Author: Craig Smith <CraigS@iewc.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:44:15 -0600
My brakes failed on me this weekend. No warning , pedal went to the floor. I got one of the kids to pump the pedal as I held the front hose to the caliper, I could feel it jump a bit. It won't pump u
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00493.html (7,479 bytes)

11. Re: Brakes (score: 1)
Author: Eric Kieboom <ekieboom@xs4all.nl>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 15:36:09 +0100
I'm guessing one of the seals on the master cylinder plunger suddenly failed. Open it up to be sure. Cheers, -- Eric Kieboom - The Netherlands 1976 Spit 1500 - Original Java Green http://www.xs4all.n
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00496.html (7,263 bytes)

12. Re: Brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Jeff McNeal" <jmcneal@ohms.com>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 07:14:59 -0800
Sorry to hear about this. It could be several things. 1. pinhole leak somewhere in the brake lines causing gradual fluid loss. 2. loose or stripped fittings in the brake lines causing gradual fluid
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00500.html (10,226 bytes)

13. Re: Brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Graham Stretch" <technical@iwnet.screaming.net>
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2001 23:40:44 -0000
Hi Craig Take the lid off the master cylinder and look in whilst your helper presses the pedal, you will possibly see a flow generated in the reservoir, this is due to an internal failure of the mast
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00506.html (8,187 bytes)

14. brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Fred Thomas" <vafred@erols.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 08:49:41 -0500
Craig, you can think 10 years all you want, one day when you need your brakes and they go right to the floor because of a groove in the M/C and someone maybe even you are killed or injured then how m
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00693.html (6,950 bytes)

15. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: Michael Hargreave Mawson <OC@46thFoot.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 17:34:04 +0100
Here's a powerful quotation on the subject from Spider Robinson's "Callahan's Crazy Crosstime Bar": "I used to have a wife and daughter before I decided to install my own brakes. I saved thirty dolla
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00715.html (7,659 bytes)

16. Re: brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Scott A. Roberts" <herald1200@home.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2001 12:34:49 -0500
What's your point, Mike? Scott ;)
/html/spitfires/2001-03/msg00716.html (7,468 bytes)

17. Brakes (score: 1)
Author: Ken C <kenwc@pacbell.net>
Date: Tue, 08 Feb 2000 19:58:04 -0800
The '72 Spit is getting closer to completion, lots of details left. However, no interior is more than a detail !! But that's another story... Finally getting to the brake lines. I'm using a '75 M/C
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00201.html (7,091 bytes)

18. Re: Brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Donald H. Locker" <dhl@chelseamsl.com>
Date: Wed, 9 Feb 2000 08:29:41 -0500
I bought a bubble (ISO) flare tool kit from the local CarQuest; worked great, cost about $60. I recall that Eastwood also has such in their collection. NFI, ... Donald.
/html/spitfires/2000-02/msg00210.html (6,353 bytes)

19. Brakes (score: 1)
Author: "Patrick Bowen" <pabowen@mediaone.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:28:22 -0500
I am redoing the rear brakes on my '79 Spit. The axles are all the way off on the bench (shipwrights disease) and I am doing them there. I have everything connected and on correctly and the brakes ad
/html/spitfires/1999-11/msg00539.html (7,876 bytes)

20. Re: Brakes (score: 1)
Author: Bob Norway <examiner@scci.net>
Date: Sat, 20 Nov 1999 14:45:06 -0500
If I remember correctly, I had the same problem when I replaced my shoes. I think it ended up being that you have to really be careful in making sure EVERYTHING is centered up correctly. Seems that I
/html/spitfires/1999-11/msg00540.html (9,567 bytes)

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