Craig Smith wrote:
>
> I learned something last night!
> I have a Mityvac,(great little tool), and I was helping a friend bleed some
> brakes on a custom 71 C10 Chevy pickup. We bought a disk brake kit for the
> rears and as I was using the vac. I was getting a lot of air through the
> line at the connection point of the hose and the nipple. I thought that
> maybe it was air coming through the system but I wasn't getting much fluid
> with it.
> I went to the web site and looked at the instruction page and Mityvac
> recommends Teflon tape around the threads of the nipple.
> I removed the nipples and wrapped them with the tape and man what a
> difference. What was going on was air was traveling past the threads, so all
> I was doing was sucking outside air and not getting a good suction on the
> line.
> The link is
> http://www.mityvac.com/
While the MityVac manufacturers recommend tape, it does have the possibility of
introducing shreds
of the stuff into the system. The same results can be had by using Teflon pipe
dope, sparingly
applied, without the chance of shreds getting stuck in various orifices. The
liquid pipe dope is
alcohol-based, and therefore is soluble in all brake fluids except silicone
fluids, and applying it
to all but the last couple of threads ensures that little or none of it is
introduced into the brake
system.
Cheers.
--
Michael D. Porter
Roswell, NM (yes, _that_ Roswell)
[mailto:mporter@zianet.com]
Don't let people drive you crazy when you know it's within walking distance.
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