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During the course of the master cylinder STC process, I discovered a really fun fluid trick. I bled the brakes using a bleeder canister from the bottom up. For neatness, I threaded a 1/8" NPT hose barb into the reservoir with some tubing to take the overflow overboard. Naturally, this left the reservoir full. Real full. Test flew the plane and... ...fluid on the belly, coming out some drain holes on a line with a leading edge. Damn! Must have left a leak. take up all the floorboards, dismantle things again, wipe everything with white paper towel. No sign of leak. Fluid is in center of fuselage, not under brake mechanism anyway. Buttoned it up. Flew again. Fluid again. Aw, c'mon. Went to check reservoir level. Fluid on outside. Oh, yeah... ...it WOULD be full to tippy-top. Over-full. And it would be spewing out the vent when I fly. And of course the fluid WOULD find its way up the steering rod, around the (tight) boot under pressure of cowling flow, and under the floor. Took an ear syringe and extracted an ounce or so of fluid. No more drippy. By the way, a cable-tie makes a nice brake fluid reservoir dip-stick, though I wish now that I was in there I had sprung for the SkyPort 'improved' reservoir.' Greg ==^================================================================ 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 -- Register now to manage your mail! http://www.topica.com/partner/tag02/register ==^================================================================
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