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Re: [TR] Bleeding new Brake lines

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Subject: Re: [TR] Bleeding new Brake lines
From: "Randall" <tr3driver@ca.rr.com>
Date: Mon, 26 Jan 2009 10:11:50 -0800
> Over in another automotive universe (porsche 911), they worry about
> pumping
> the pedal to bleed brakes because this tends to force the seals in
> the master to go into the area of the bore that is not usually "wet",

Doesn't seem right to me.  How can the bottom of the bore not be "wet"?
Unused, perhaps, but covered with fluid.

> Many years back I learned a completely different method for bleeding,
> which requires only patience and gravity: 

That is very interesting.  How does it get the air out of the high spots?

Randall
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