Somebody up there must not like me. I put over 500 miles on my B last
week without a hitch, so Monday I decided to take it off the road to
rebuild the rear wheel cylinders (leaking). What should have been a two
hour or so job has been three days in the making.
I rebuilt both cylinders (easy, I've done hydraulics before). I start
to bleed them and a bleeder screw breaks off - threads to the cylinder
are stripped. So I get a new cylinder, and put it on. That was today.
I borrowed an EZ-Bleed. I hook it up (to a pretty low tire - my press
gauge was broken but the tire was low) and the master cylinder reservoir
looks like it's going to blow up. I open a bleeder screw and nothing
comes out. I pump the pedal (with the EZ-Bleed disconnected) just to
see what it does, and the new cylinder leaks. Fluid shoots out of the
rear-facing piston. Maybe I can use the seals from the rebuilt cylinder
on the new one?
Will my B ever see the road again? It's been in the 70s-80s every
afternoon this week and riding around in an air-conditioned Japanese car
is getting boring.
Very frustrated =(
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Tyson Sherman
http://www.tecinfo.com/~tsherman
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