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RE:bleed screws

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Subject: RE:bleed screws
From: Kevin Thompson <kthompson@whoi.edu>
Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2003 14:43:14 -0500
  Or, just wipe some grease around the threads after you loosen them....

  :-)
Kevin Thompson
Cape Cod British Car Club
http://clubs.hemmings.com/capecodbritish

you guys wrote:

Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 22:38:55 -0500
From: "mikeross" <mikeross@prodigy.net>
Subject: Re: bleed screws

Thanks Craig,

I just went through the same thing and ended up getting my son to pump
the
brake pedal.  I thought that I may have had a leak where I didn't
tighten
down a fitting, till I was able to successfully bleed the system the old

fasioned way.  Had I not seen your post, I may have given up on my
MityVac.

Mike Ross
- ----- Original Message -----
From: "Craig Smith" <csmith1@awcwire.com>
To: "SpitList (Spit list)" <spitfires@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 03, 2003 8:50 AM
Subject: bleed screws


> 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/
>
>
> Craig Smith
> Office 864/289-0933
> Fax    864/289-9645

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