Jim,
I got a set of speed bleeders from the guy on ebay. According to him, you
need three flavors of bleeders: one for front, one for rear, and one for
clutch. They all have the same thread on them and I'm sure Girling had only
one P/N for all. The ebay guy recognizes that you only need one bleeder for
the rear, so a set for the car would be 2 front, 1 rear, 1, clutch. The set
that he sent me included two bleeders for the rear instead of just one.
That was fortunate because I found that the bleeders he supplied for the
rear worked better on the front. The front bleeders work fine in the rear,
and I haven't installed a bleeder for the clutch yet. The bleeders that he
supplied for front were longer than those for the rear - don't know why.
The long bleeders have a clearance problem, interfereing with the hose
fitting on the caliper assembly. The shorter (for rear) bleeders had less
of a clearance problem. I still found that I had to use an open-end wrench
for the front bleeders because there was no clearance for a normal tubing
wrench. All that said, the bleeders worked great after I did my front/rear
swap. I also found it useful to temporarily install a bleader on the output
side of the brake servo to bleed the servo.
Will Seay
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Boynton" <jimboynton@comcast.net>
To: "Tigers " <tigers@autox.team.net>
Sent: Wednesday, April 07, 2010 4:34 PM
Subject: [Tigers] speed bleeders
> Has anyone used or installed the speed bleeders that I have seen for sale
> on
> ebay?
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