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HELP! Pressure bleeding Brakes

To: spridget list <spridgets@autox.team.net>, midgetsprite group <midgetsprite@yahoogroups.com>
Subject: HELP! Pressure bleeding Brakes
Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 13:10:28 -0800 (PST)
Sheeesh. Finally got a beautiful warm afternoon to
finish up the brakes on the Sprite. Mastercylinder
assembled and installed. Brake fluid in.

Attached the ultra-deluxe home made bleeder
contraption and pressure does not seem to go through
to force out fluid.

Is there something wrong with my rocket science here?

I hooked an air hose to the top of the mastercylinder.
With MC cap on and inside the cap spill blocking thing
removed I attached a tire valve stem to a 3" rubber
pipe cap with a hose type clamp. Applying about ten
pounds of pressure. I can tell it is applying pressure
because the rubber attachment "domes" up.

Question:  Does the brake pedal have to be in a
particular position to let the pressure through.
Should I use more than 10 pounds of pressure? Or have
I mis-understood the principle of pressure bleeding.

I may have to wait for my wife to come home to
manually bleed the brakes.

rats, darn, phooey, bill b. '69 Sprite

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