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Re: [TR] Bleeding new Brake lines

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Subject: Re: [TR] Bleeding new Brake lines
From: "Jim Muller" <jimmuller@rcn.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Jan 2009 22:18:27 -0500
On 25 Jan 2009 at 18:17, Randall wrote:

> For the clutch, I have always been able to work the air out
> while sitting in the driver's seat.

Without doing anything to the slave cylinder itself?

> Pump the pedal as high as you can get it, then hold it to the
> floor for a count of ten, and release it.  Wait a few seconds,
> then try again.

Pray, what does it mean, pump the pedal as high as you can get it?  
Let me guess how this works.  Any air in the system rises to the top 
of the line, then is forces further out when you release the pedal? 
It then bubbles itself out the top of the MC?


-- 
Jim Muller
jimmuller@rcn.com
'80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+
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