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Re: Quiet Rex/Braking.

To: "David Hill" <davhill@cwcom.net>
Subject: Re: Quiet Rex/Braking.
From: Larry Macy <macy@bblmail.psycha.upenn.edu>
Date: Sat, 14 Aug 1999 12:09:01 -0400
Moving the house?? What kind of B do you have??

Larry

>>>>On 8/14/99 9:00 AM so and so (David Hill) said. (And I quote:)

>Hi All, thanks for the replies...
>
>Rex's rear brakes are adjusted OK so it looks like air in the system. I
>have a vague memory of having to kick the pedal hard to dislodge the
>bubbles in my other B. 
>However, moving house in 12 days so I'll live with it for now.....
>BTW, one thing I'd forgotten-aren't B's fun :-)
>
>Cheers, 
>
>Dave Hill
>
>Carl Elliott wrote:
>> 
>> When I put my GT back togeather last year , It was on the road for a month 
or
>> so then one day no clutch, Everything new or rebuilt, Checked and no fluid,
>> Refilled the master and one pump off we go. To this day no leaks. Where the
>> fluid went, I think an air pocket. Driving finally worked it to master and
>> fluid filled the void. Carl E.
>> 
>> James Nazarian Jr wrote:
>> 
>> > I get the same thing in my 71.  Yesterday as I was driving through Denver
>> > my pedal went soft on me like I had taken in some air.  When I stopped to
>> > check it my M/C was completely dry.  I filled it back up, pumped the
>> > brakes and they came back so I am still working on where I lost and entire
>> > M/C worth of fluid in a day with no apparent leaks.
>> >
>> > James Nazarian
>> > '71 B roadster
>> > '74 BGT bastardization with big aluminum heart :)
>> > '63 Buick 215 cubic inch 'heart'
>> >
>> > On Thu, 12 Aug 1999, David Hill wrote:
>> >
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > Rex the BGT has had a little modification today. I changed the centre
>> > > silencer (cherry bomb) for an ex-Dolomite Sprint stainless silencer
>> > > (round section absorption, about 4" diameter). Now his bark is about the
>> > > same as his bite!
>> > > Just one question. The brakes are perfect if they are pumped up once.
>> > > Sounds like an air bubble to me but is it a common problem?
>> > > Experiences, fixes gratefully received.
>> > > Cheers,
>> > >
>> > > Dave Hill
>> > > '72 ST BGT in UK
>> > >
>> > >


Larry Macy
78 Midget

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