napa and other parst houses sell a kit for bench bleeding with plastic screw
in adapters that have a nipple on the end for a rubber hose to be slipped
onto. the hose is intended to be put into the resivour fill hole and with
regular brake fluid you just pump the piston untill no more air bubbles come
out of the tube going back to the resivour. it's that simple with alcohol
based fluids.
with silicone fliud you need to run your tube to a galss(clean) jar and only
put fresh fluid from the container into the resivour when bench bleeding a
master cylinder. silicone is prone to airation wich takes a while to settle
out. if you do not bench bleed with fresh fluid you are reintroducing air
into the master cylinder in the form of foam. this will eventually settle
out and give a very spongy pedal at best in a day or two requiring redoing
entire system bleeding to purge air from system. now the glass jar with
the expensive foamy silicone fluid? just cap the jar and let it sit and
settle out the foam/air bubbles and go ahead and use it as long as it is
clean fluid and not contaminated. little to no mess, and you did not dump a
quart of the fluid on your floor(financially a bad move and real slippery on
the shop sneakers too!).
ok kids! that's it for today. back to living large in lurk mode! he-he!
chuck.
yup weeks go by and i type nothing, tonight, i'm a typing fool! i may be
totally wrong but i'm a typing fool. yeah! (zappa refrence required)
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