Ehh...
Ross, the two greasenipples behind the rear wheels... This is not by
chance the bleeder nipples for the brake fluid ? If so, they should be
cleaned in a desolvent removing all the grease. If by chance anyone of
them was open letting any of the grease in the brakesystem, then the
rear system should be dismantled and cleaned at a garage.
When you opened the hydraulic system, you let in a lot of air into your
brakeline system. This will effectively reduce your brakes to nil...
The way to bleed the system for air is to get a friend to help you pump
the pedal to the bottom and keep it there. You then open the bleeder
nipple for letting the air out. Remember to tighten the nipple before
your friend releases the brake pedal. Use a transparent small hose on
your bleeder nipple when doing this work.(fuel lines for model airplanes
works wonderful) and you will see the air bubbles come out of your
system quite easiliy. When there comes no air during a periode of 5
times of: Press brake pedal, open bleeder nipple, whatch for air, close
bleeder nipple, release brake pedal, then you can be pretty sure you
brake line is free from air.
This procedure should be done for every one of the four wheels, but in
your case i presume it is enough to do it for the line you opened.
BUT! be aware to keep the level of fluid in the reservoir. If it becomes
to low during the bleeding process, you will actually draw air from the
reservoir and pump it into the brake system. And you must start from
scratch again...
Best Regards,
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Fra: Ross Jones [mailto:rossjones@earthlink.net]
Sendt: 7. oktober 1999 03:05
Til: Morgan List
Emne: Dumb move-no brakes at all now
Tonight I pulled the left rear wheel off my '87 4/4 and inspected it for
problems. Bought some brake cleaning spray and cleaned everything, then
greased the two nipples I found behind the wheel. Took the hydraulic
line
off and pumped out about a half pint of fluid, then refastened it, and
refilled the reservoir.
The result... no brakes at all! Almost ran into the inside wall of my
garage.
Could not find the leak, so time to take it to a specialist. The car is
now
actually leaking from both rear wheels, although the left is greater.
There
seemed to be no sign of a leak from the hydraulic lines, so I can't
figure
where it is coming from. It must be from the brake drum itself.
Everything under the car looked brand-new. All of the nuts and bolts are
still shiny, like new. First time I actually looked under the car with
the
wheel off, and it is spotless. Cannot figure what happened with the rear
drum brakes. I will have to take the car to a mechanic on Saturday
morning,
about 12 miles away, and will have to depend on the hand brake to make
the
trip.
Thanks for the tips thus far, but I am doing something wrong. A car with
less than 10K miles should not have these problems, or am I wrong?
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