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May I suggest a better way to bleed the brakes? Bleed from the bottom, not the top. This is especially useful on those OTHER planes that have their master cylinders and fluid reservoirs behind the RUDDER pedals where they are very hard to reach. Wrap a rag or paper towel around the reservoir to catch the excess fluid. (If you are a pureist you can make a fitting to go in the filler hole with a tube into a catch container, but you won't re-use the fluid anyway) Using a squeeze bottle or preferably a pump type oil can with a plastic hose on it that will fit over the little nipple on the wheel cylinder, open the bleeder and pump in one stroke of fluid. Close the valve at the end of each stroke of the pump to avoid letting in air or sucking out the fluid while you re-fill the pump. You can even push on the brake pedal after a pump stroke while the valve is closed to test and see if you need to continue. Since the air bubbles want to go up instead of down, less fluid is used in the process. You don't even have to take the stopper out of the master cylinder, in most cases since it has a breather hole in it. In fact this is a preferential method of filling the master cylinder since the wheel is easier to get to in most airplanes, and you get a free bleed job at the same time. This scheme works decently with cars too. You can salvage some of the brake fluid on a car by sucking the excess out of the master cylinder reservoir with a plastic bottle or something similar since most are more accessable than in aircraft. Dick in NM ----- Original Message ----- From: Greg Bullough <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: coupers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2001 6:56 PM Subject: [COUPERS] Brake bleeding hint > ----[Please read http://ercoupers.com/disclaimer.htm before following any advice in this forum.]---- > > Here's another hint from someone who had to re-bleed his brakes > yesterday. (Don't ask, just don't f***ing ask.) > > I sent the DIY bleeder home with Carl, so didn't have it to hand. I did have > the auto-store $2.00 one-man bleeder valve that had failed before. > > What I finally realized is that on our pipsqueak brake systems the tube is > so long that it can't fill with fluid on one pump of the pedal. The bubbles > get sucked back in. > > I bobbed it off to about 3" and then put a longer, thicker tube on the far > side to catch > the spurting. That did it; after a lot of effort and repeats of pull on the > parking brake, bleed, close the bleeder, the air was gone. > > Greg > > > __________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > __________________________________________________ To unsubscribe from this list please send mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ==^================================================================ EASY UNSUBSCRIBE click here: http://topica.com/u/?aVxiLm.aVzvvT Or send an email To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] This email was sent to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] T O P I C A -- Learn More. Surf Less. Newsletters, Tips and Discussions on Topics You Choose. http://www.topica.com/partner/tag01 ==^================================================================
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