[Tigers] speed bleeders

[Will Seay]

Jim,
I got a set of speed bleeders from the guy on ebay.  According to him, you 
need three flavors of bleeders: one for front, one for rear, and one for 
clutch.  They all have the same thread on them and I'm sure Girling had only 
one P/N for all.  The ebay guy recognizes that you only need one bleeder for 
the rear, so a set for the car would be 2 front, 1 rear, 1, clutch.  The set 
that he sent me included two bleeders for the rear instead of just one. 
That was fortunate because I found that the bleeders he supplied for the 
rear worked better on the front.  The front bleeders work fine in the rear, 
and I haven't installed a bleeder for the clutch yet.  The bleeders that he 
supplied for front were longer than those for the rear - don't know why. 
The long bleeders have a clearance problem, interfereing with the hose 
fitting on the caliper assembly.  The shorter (for rear) bleeders had less 
of a clearance problem.  I still found that I had to use an open-end wrench 
for the front bleeders because there was no clearance for a normal tubing 
wrench.  All that said, the bleeders worked great after I did my front/rear 
swap.  I also found it useful to temporarily install a bleader on the output 
side of the brake servo to bleed the servo.

Will Seay
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----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Jim Boynton" <jimboynton at comcast.net>
To: "Tigers " <tigers at autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 4:34 PM
Subject: [Tigers] speed bleeders


> Has anyone used or installed the speed bleeders that I have seen for sale 
> on
> ebay?
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