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To: Brian Borgstede <borgstede@umsl.edu>, triumphs@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: Pressure Brake Bleeder http://netwinsite.com/top_mail.htm
From: "Hugh Barber"<trnut@cwnet.com>
Date: Tue, 14 Nov 2000 10:44:44 PDT
I fabricated a brake pressure bleeder using an old TR6 M/S cap and the 
instructions
at http://www.garageboy.com/bmw/bleeder.html . It works very well

Hugh Barber
Hollister, Ca
'73 TR6


>
>You can buy a tire valve that has pipe thread on the other end that you can

>screw
>into the cap.  This would allow you to use the air chuck for inflating tires.

>If you let go, the process stops.  Oh, maybe take the core out of the valve

>so you don't maintain pressure in the canister. I don't know what PSI
>to use, but I think the other kits use tire pressure.
>
>>> I have the old top to my reservoir.  I plan to mount a quick disconnect
to
>>> my air hose in the middle of the lid, and screw it down to the canister.

>>> The lid has a very nice rubber seal in it.  I plan to o-ring the quick
>>> disconnect too.  I pump a few lbs pressure from the regulator and bleed
my
>>> little hose off.  What does the collective brains think about this one???

>>> -JP
>>> '59 TR3A TS40984 "Parts All Over The House"
>>
>
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