Fred, who is the best guy in the whole wide world, loaned me his speedee bleeder (a proper one that hooks to the tire and has a regulator) which makes this the easiest job in the world.
The guys who said air in the lines were right, everything now works as it should. Having used one, the next time I need to do brakes I'll either borrow Fred's again or buy my own bleeder, its not worth mucking about with any other method, you open the bleed line, the air comes out followed by fluid, you let as much fluid as you want to purge come out and you're done. I imagine it makes changing the fluid very easy. That reminds me I should see if the adapter he has fits the Ranger, I should replace the fluid in that while I have the bleeder. -Curt Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2013 11:46:21 -0600 From: Brian Toscano <brian.tosc...@gmail.com> To: Mercedes Discussion List <mercedes@okiebenz.com> Subject: Re: [MBZ] 190D brakes ARRGH! Message-ID: <CACnCPhkWFs0jjxBk0rpLJC=39leggxele+_o71rrru5kssm...@mail.gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 If you don't want to bother with pressure bleeding, drip bleeding will probably be fine. On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 9:32 PM, G Mann <g2ma...@gmail.com> wrote: > New brakes, you should change out the fluid with new. Brake fluid degrades > with use. > > Now is a good time. > Grant... > > > On Wed, Jun 12, 2013 at 11:32 AM, Curt Raymond <curtlud...@yahoo.com> > wrote: > > > You may be right, I hate to spend all the money on a master cylinder and > > not need to... > > > > I need to get some more fluid and try again. This time I'll buy a quart. > > > > -Curt _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com For new and used parts go to www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com