- 1. brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 08:35:02 -0400
- Upon pushing my '78 Midget out of the garage this spring, I discovered (A) a pool of brake fluid where the front-left corner of the car stood, (B) an empty brake fluid cup, and (C) only about 20% bra
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01082.html (8,199 bytes)
- 2. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 06:18:50 -0700
- Hello Steven, tell HIS lawyer to conact YOUR lawyer. sounds like a shine job to me, depending upon, of course, if you've had previous dealings with this guy, and your level of trust in him. .. ... to
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01084.html (7,898 bytes)
- 3. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 09:28:16 -0400
- You need an O$hit day! Where are you located? Maybe there are some other listers near you who wouldn't mind giving you a hand. What you describe is less than a days work. Kevin V. On May 27, 2005, a
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01085.html (9,364 bytes)
- 4. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 07:01:22 -0700 reply-type=original
- New rear wheel cylinders are about $45 ea New rear shoes about $25 Stainless steel braided replacement brake hoses, $45 for all three. O-rings inside the brake distribution block, less than a buck. T
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01087.html (10,795 bytes)
- 5. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:57:37 -0400
- Do the job yourself. Don't mess with the Mityvac or EZBleed. I had one and threw it away. DO buy a set of flare nut wrenches. They are just like open end wrenches but they contact 5 flats and won't s
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01091.html (11,792 bytes)
- 6. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:39:51 EDT
- I am using a presurrized bleeder that takes pressure from your tire to pressure up the master cyl. Works like a charm - and all I have to do is walk the car starting at the furthest brake nipple and
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01100.html (7,924 bytes)
- 7. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:50:44 -0400
- If you must get one of these, check out this one on eBay. Allen Hefner Norristown PA
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01102.html (9,164 bytes)
- 8. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 13:07:54 -0400 reply-type=original
- Or you can build your own for $20 or so. http://www.bmw-m.net/TechProc/bleeder.htm
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01103.html (8,971 bytes)
- 9. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 10:30:36 -0700
- Why, did you want to bid on it? ;^) Mike MacLean 60 Sprite 56 BN2 http://home.earthlink.net/~macleans/ --
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01105.html (9,310 bytes)
- 10. RE: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 12:54:34 -0500
- < If you must get one of these, check out this one on eBay.> Allen, I know we all drive little cars, but this may be a bit too much <BFG> I bet the corvette group could use it though LOL Duncan
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01106.html (8,535 bytes)
- 11. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 14:00:00 EDT
- I guess that it would $2000 clear if it needed calipers? I'd drive the car home real slow. I don't think the garage owner can insist you flatbed the car home - surely you can just sign a disclaimer?
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01109.html (8,729 bytes)
- 12. RE: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 18:34:24 GMT j4RIXkPg016391
- I dunno, Duncan.... ....while I do not require the vacuum personally, there might be a way to adapt this to the Mityvac set-up I bought from that Volvo dealer. :):) Cap'n Bob Basic Frog
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01112.html (8,515 bytes)
- 13. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:17:10 EDT
- This garage owner is just trying to make it difficult - I bet it is a good tactic for keeping cars in his possesion at the high prices he charges.
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01116.html (8,213 bytes)
- 14. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:21:17 EDT
- Good point - next time I should send a warning to the Spridgets list. It was interesting - there were a lot of bids on it. That one was bought on sale - think I only paid 15 bucks for it. I didn't wa
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01117.html (8,812 bytes)
- 15. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 15:23:15 EDT
- The bottom part looks like something I saw in one of the Austin Powers
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01118.html (8,239 bytes)
- 16. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:38:54 -0400
- I am in Succasunna, New Jersey, home of the Britfest show. That would be spectacular if it could be worked out - I don't know if I am really local to anyone though...
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01128.html (10,861 bytes)
- 17. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 22:55:05 -0400
- Dude that is local. When I get over the horror of my last trip the Larry's Oshit, I will post about that trip, all I can say is Larry lives in bum F** nowhere PA, only suitable for cows and nuclear r
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01131.html (9,439 bytes)
- 18. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Fri, 27 May 2005 21:44:57 -0700 filter08.roc.ny.frontiernet.net
- is Larry lives in bum F** IMPOSSIBLE! That's where I live, and I am reasonably certain that Larry lives almost an entire continent away. However, should anyone care to visit the REAL "Nowhere", I do
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01133.html (9,152 bytes)
- 19. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:09:15 -0400
- Well I live there in PA, Whilst you live in a desert state (or is that dessert state ;-) But it ain't exactly "nowhere" it is between Reading, Philly, Pottstown, Phoenixville, but not near any of the
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01143.html (9,757 bytes)
- 20. Re: brake project ahead (score: 1)
- Author: Unknown
- Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 13:33:55 -0400
- Pottstown? Larry has live within 2 miles of that town for over a year and goes to it so little he got us lost 3 times. I think the quoute was "I never go to Pottstown and my daughter lives over the h
- /html/spridgets/2005-05/msg01146.html (9,601 bytes)
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