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Re: Rear Brake Bleeder

To: Weberstevej@aol.com, mgs@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Rear Brake Bleeder
From: Barney Gaylord <barneymg@MGAguru.com>
Date: Sat, 04 Mar 2006 03:09:27 -0600
At 01:24 PM 3/3/06, Weberstevej@aol.com wrote:
>I am rebuilding a '59 MGA and am trying to determine if the bleeder 
>screws at the rear wheel cylinders should be pointing down and to 
>the front (~45  deg) or up and to the rear of the vehicle? The 
>bleeders are screwed  into 90 degree banjos. If installed up and to 
>the rear so that the banjo  forms a vee that the parking brake lever 
>falls into will there be interference  with the parking brake 
>action? I also assume that the brake pipes should come  into the 
>banjo from the front and top of the vehicle.

Correct.  "V" up, pipe on top, bleed nipple to rear.  See here: 
http://mgaguru.com/mgtech/hydraulics/ht112.htm

Barney Gaylord
1958 MGA with an attitude
http://MGAguru.com




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