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Re: [Healeys] Little Aussie bleeder! (5th time lucky)

To: 'Peter Linn' <greylinn@ozemail.com.au>, "healeys@autox.team.net"
Subject: Re: [Healeys] Little Aussie bleeder! (5th time lucky)
From: Robert Blair <rnbmail@yahoo.com>
Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2009 20:24:09 -0700 (PDT)
Nice simple instruction mate - good on ya....need to think about the in n out
thing.....

Robert N. Blair  Yellow 65BJ8  rnbmail@yahoo.com
   



--- On Wed, 4/29/09, Quinn, Patrick <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au> wrote:

> From: Quinn, Patrick <Patrick.Quinn@det.nsw.edu.au>
> Subject: Re: [Healeys] Little Aussie bleeder! (5th time lucky)
> To: "'Peter Linn'" <greylinn@ozemail.com.au>, "healeys@autox.team.net"
<healeys@autox.team.net>
> Date: Wednesday, April 29, 2009, 6:21 PM
> G'day Peter
>
> You make no reference to using anything but 2 blokes and
> whatever spanner it
> takes.
>
> Norman Gunstan aside I have tried all sorts of gizmos to
> bleed brakes, but
> always come back to a simple piece of clear plastic tubing
> and a glass jar.
> The tubing comes from your local hardware store and a clean
> Vegemite or jam
> jar works perfectly.
>
> Simply fit one end of the tubing over the bleed nipple
> making sure it's a snug
> fit and the other end sits in the jar. You can pour some
> brake fluid into the
> jar if you wish or leave it dry.
>
> Then with someone sitting in the driver's seat, (Normally a
> bloke, as for some
> reason women have trouble with the in and out action) and
> the other person
> would be lying on the floor next to the wheel in question
> with a ring spanner
> placed on the bleed nipple.
>
> The bloke in the driver's seat pumps the brakes about a
> half dozen times (or
> until some resistance is felt) and holds his foot down on
> the pedal. Then the
> spanner operator undoes the bleed nipple and the fluid will
> pass through the
> tube into the jar. While the pedal pusher keeps his foot
> down the spanner
> operator closes the nipple.
>
> This is repeated until all air in the form of bubbles has
> passed through the
> tube.
>
> I normally start with the wheel furthest away from the
> brake master cylinder
> ie the passenger side rear. Then work towards the closest.
> If you have the
> wheel cylinders with ball bearing stoppers you will have to
> ensure that these
> a free moving.
>
> The purpose of the jar is that once the tube is full of
> fluid it prevents
> re-entry of air. Has worked for me every time.
>
> My wife and I will probably be in Brisbane for the Cootha
> Classic at the end
> of May. You going? (http://www.coothaclassic.com.au/)
>
> Hoo Roo
>
> Patrick Quinn
> Sydney, Australia
>
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